Word: contender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are those who contend that Playwright O'Neill has more to say when he is concerned with intimate and human drama than when he is setting forth some tremendous generalization upon Life. The first audience at Lazarus Laughed was properly impressed with the repetitive and imposing spectacle which the Pasadena Players (amateur) made of their production. The play was given in the Pasadena Community Playhouse, a theatre endowed by local patrons for the highly able efforts of the Pasadena Players. The mechanics of the production were gigantic; there were vast numbers of actors, 400 costumes and 300 masks...
...editorial went on to say: "Citizens may be in doubt whether some supporters of Senator Deneen and Judge Swanson blew up their homes to elect their tickets, as Mr. Thompson and State's Attorney Crowe contend, or whether supporters of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Crowe blew up Mr. Deneen's house and Judge Swanson's house to elect the ticket of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Crowe. This is indeed a puzzle and a bewilderment, at this writing not near a solution. But it is nothing to the spectacle of Mr. Coolidge's gunmen coming in from...
Moralists moralized about the temptations of political immunity with which the offspring of potent politicians must have to contend...
...contend a "family tree" proves nothing for a man unless he can garner from it the "sweet fruit of reason" and the nectar of tolerance. May I point out that even an American family tree must have a "sap." For which the K K. K. should be thankful...
...question chosen for this year's debate is: "Resolved, That this house favors the governmental policies of Mussolini". Harvard will meet Princeton at Princeton, Princeton will journey to New Haven to contend with Yale, and the Blue will meet the Crimson in Cambridge. All of these debates will take place on the evening of March 24. Announcement will be made later as to whether the University affirmative or negative team will remain at home...