Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brethren in Manhattan were quarreling over legalities, some 400 Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants met in Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum to discuss their differences. The seminar was held under the auspices of the Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among conclusions reached by the seminar...
Other Men's Wives. Elaborate and stupid tale of a French wayside inn with Claiborne Foster, orthodox detectives, lingerie, disguises...
Said Slapped Swaffer: "I was surprised at my own calmness. ... I called the headwaiter and said, 'Throw this woman out.' " Said Slapper Foster: "I smacked him wholeheartedly on behalf of America. The dining room was crowded and I introduced myself by saying: 'You deliberately insulted me and I'm going to insult you in the only...
...Other critics had been kinder to Miss Foster. When Playwright Don Mullaly's Conscience opened in Manhattan, in 1924, Actress Foster made a hit, saw her name in lights...
...London opening last fortnight the play had fair success. Actress Foster is not the only person Critic Hannen Swaffer has belittled. He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller." Playwright Shaw did not smack Critic Swaffer's face. Instead, at the annual luncheon of the Critics' Circle last month in London, when Toastmaster St. John Ervine divided dramatic critics into three kinds?"critics, reporters and Hannen Swaffer"?Shaw said all dramatic critics were very bad, compared Swaffer to the late great Playwright-Critic William Archer,* said that Archer was worse...