Word: whether
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Winter Bound. The Provincetown Players in a clumsy drama about two women who coop themselves in a farmhouse, vowing to abjure sex for the winter season. So nebulous is Playwright Thomas Herbert Dickinson, onetime English professor (University of Wisconsin), that you cannot be sure whether or not he is describing a modern Lesbos...
...Swope's face, making them both nervous ever since. Testifying to the speed they were going, Colyumist Heywood Campbell Broun, who was riding to dinner with the Swopes, said: "When my wife [Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared being late for the dinner, Mr. Swope boomed: "A dinner given by city people living in the country is a nonfixed feast as to time! I don't think we were expected before 8:30 or 9 o'clock!" For his nose he was given...
Room clerks at Manhattan hotels asked each new arrival whether he wanted a room for sleeping or for jumping...
...already feeling keenly the need of new lands and resources are also the ones who are likely to have large increases [in population] for the next few decades," and "never has any previous civilization shown a rapacity that compares even remotely to our own." For instance: "The question of whether any white people should hold and exploit a tropical country with native labor as is now being done is going to become one of the burning questions. . . ." Segregation or wholesale deportation are poor remedies. Assimilation of the few by the many is more logical. But race friction usually hinders assimilation...
...death of M. Georges Clemenceau marks the transition of international politics from the hysterical period of the Great War to the more balanced and sane present. The "Tiger" with his energetic and forceful personality stood for the impetus which directed France through the most disorganizing experience in her history. Whether or not he was always aware of ethics is doubtful, but he did attain...