Word: commend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receive enough space to commend to your readers a new adventure in the Bostonian theatre, which deserves their interest, which, in measure, depends upon their support? A little company of amateurs often drawing close to professional skill and pains, has taken the Peabody Playhouse at 357 Charles Street for three months. There they will produce plays of the newer, fresher sort, that within easy recollection were novel and successful in New York; that no other hands are likely to bring hither. They are now making a beginning with "Ambush," as truthful, human, moving tragedy, in little and around the corner...
...offered "The Middle Group of American Historians", by James Spencer Bassett. The author, the publisher, the price will surely commend this book to your notice. Published by Macmillan at $3.25, Community Book Shop is pleased to present...
Perhaps we shouldn't have classed Mrs. Loring's book as a "Western novel". That may condemn it yet unread to many a reader. But it will commend it to as many more; so we will not retract...
...tatulent buffoonery which comes of labored writing. Almost invariably the editorials are of this quality; some of the jokes, too, are hammered out on solid, lifeless anvils. The skit entitled "The Freshman and the Two Gentlemen" and the first of a series of "Prominent Harvard Graduates" do not commend the Lampoon's flowing bowl. And the text of the first page is scarcely better...
...world and society are functioning normally. It is the duty of trained minds to reflect. These who have had the opportunity to study history should have a true perspective and a sense of proportion. They should examine the substance rather than the shadow. They should be as ready to commend as to denounce...