Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maugham has written an entertaining comedy, which presents some rather unusual aspects of modern marriage. The play is interested at appropriate intervals with the sort of fashionable aphorism which all modern English comedies seem to require, and in addition there are a number of good old wise cracks, for the "gout americain." Miss Barrymore is pleasing to the eye and gives an exceedingly finished performance. Miss Verree Teasdale takes the part of Marie Louise, the attractive but inconstant wife and fills the bill admirably. Mr. Aubrey Smith's performance as John, the prominent and unfaithful Harley Street surgeon, was uniformly...
...following article about Professor Norton was written for the Crimson by G. H. Browne '78, founder and for 45 years head master of the Browne and Nichols School, and an early disciple and a lifelong friend of Professor Norton...
...following article dealing with Charles Eliot Norton's contribution to the development of archaeology was written for the Crimson by Professor G. H. Chase '96, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and president of the Boston Society of the American Institute of Archaeology...
...prizes, which are awarded annually, are autographed editions of Herschel's volume on the water supply of ancient Rome, which includes a translation and photographic reproduction of a manuscript entitled "The Water Supply of Ancient Rome," written by Sextus Julius Frontinus, water commissioner of Rome...
First edition copies of some of the rarest books in the priceless Widener collection are on exhibition this week in the Memorial Room at the Library. These include the early English chronicles of the New World across the sea written by Holingshead, Hardyng, and Purchas, all printed before the first half of the seventeenth century; and also a copy of Chapman's first translation of Homer, inscribed by the author...