Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest in the second act centers about Don Santiago, the poor harrassed governor who, trying to write an official communication to Madrid, finds that all his secretaries are employed by his wife preparing for a fireworks celebration. When finally he gets started he is continually interrupted by arriving guests, and is further discomfited by twice having to contradict an official order at the request of his persuasive wife. In the third act, much amusement is again found in the plight of the governor, who for the first time in his life presides at a bull-fight, and is quite unable...
...glad, intensely glad that you live; glad of the power which you possess; deeply heartened to have you do what our souls would have us do. As I listened to you at the Harvard Union, above all I felt your living faith in your message. I am writing you because I believe that the hardest thing which our generation must bear is the mocking, bitter fact that human nature is utterly unable to comprehend that which is distant from it, or is inevitably forgetful of that which one was reality. You will be strong, indeed if you can leave America...
...suggest that every ex-service man in the University write to his Congressman and forcefully protest against this political outrage, suggesting at the same time that those who can't work be given a fighting chance to earn a living at the country's expense. A. GARDNER 1L W. S. CARLISLE 1L HOWARD BOOKER...
...prolonged production. The only real discrepancies are to be found in Act III where Mrs. Higgens, an English Lady, the mother of an English son, has an "at home" and receives guests without serving tea. And again, what English lady--or any other-would busily continue to write notes in the presence of her guests...
According to the announcement of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, these fellowships will be open "only to male graduate students, that is, to Americans holding a bachelor's degree." They should be able to write and speak French. Preference is to be given to those who are unable by their own means to support the cost of their studies in Belgium...