Word: borderland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fellow, gets in deeper and deeper, is finally implicated in a knife murder which her husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned himself with such austere subjects as the psychological borderland between religion and sex (Bride of the Lamb). In his newest play austerity has given way to ribaldry, sex is uncomplicated by religion. Manhattan dramacritics hailed it as bald, unblushing. Some of them inclined to consider it dull. This judgment, if you are not lulled to sleep by a series...
...awards of the season for her loyalty to Henrik Ibsen. In a year which has been marked by the presentation of a great number of dull modern plays, theatre-goers have not been allowed to forget Ibsen's searching studies. Her selection of this strange, borderland work is not altogether fortunate. It is not so easy of interpretation as The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler, her other offerings, nor is its principal character so suited to Miss Yurka...
Bolivian and Paraguayan troops glared at each other last week over a little-known, nondescript strip of borderland. They glared the more ferociously because the soil was popularly supposed to contain valu- able oil deposits. The land itself is of no agricultural value, being subject to floods at certain seasons of the year; but, for oil and other reasons, it was in dispute between the two countries. Which side of the frontier should...
Even politics, however, has its White Hope. In Mayor Rogers, the American public has the sole survivor of a great tradition. There are others on the borderland. T. R. B. in the New Republic, Walter Lippmann in the New York World, an occasional editorial in the Nation, these form a gallant and a pitiful band. And even these are not always unencumbered with such impedimenta as missions, ideals, or factional propaganda, all of which are spurious to the true satirist...
ADVENTURES ON THE BORDERLAND OF ETHICS-Richard C. Cabot, M. D. -Harper ($2). Professor Cabot of Social Ethics at Harvard, as sincere a servant as ever stood before the Lord and his fellows, some years ago gave a thoughtful public something to chew on in What Men Live By (1914). He now proposes the study of Ethics (a word more inclusive and less suspect than Morals) by toilers in various vine-yards-Theology, Medicine, Business, Education, Social Work...