Word: uneven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...wrote last week of the uneven brick streets of Baltimore [TIME, Sept. 5, p. 11]. It has befallen my lot in recent years to examine street paving in various cities from Los Angeles and San Francisco, Chicago and St. Louis, Detroit and Cleveland, to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Baltimore has by far the best paved streets and the cleanest streets. Philadelphia has the worst paved and dirtiest streets, with St. Louis a close second. WM. H. THOMSON...
Lace Petticoat. Years ago, Carle Carlton produced Tangerine, Irene, then turned his back on Broadway. Now he returns with Lace Petticoat. Good songs by Emil Gersten-berger and Producer Carlton, ingenious dances, Adelaide & Hughes abominable lines, stale humor! make it an uneven entertainment. Suggested by Deep River, it concerns a beautiful Louisiana nobody, whose romance is almost blasted by the rumor that she is a quadroon. In the last act, somebody says it is mere gossip. Song: "South Wind Is Calling." Tom Burke is the hero-tenor; Vivian Hart, newcomer, the joy of his stage life. Notable is a chorus...
Sharp-edged and uneven teeth...
...Cancers of the lip, mouth, tongue and tonsil are due mainly to broken or sharp-edged and uneven teeth or to tobacco. Gastric cancer is generally traced to abuse of the stomach. Early and abrupt weaning is a frequent cause of mammary cancer. Altogether, these and other cancers are the result of known causes and can be prevented."-James Ewing of Manhattan. He added that no effective antiseptic has been discovered. He recommended gargling with plain soap and water...