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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1920
Page
6
A satirical piece railing against work as a modern addiction, contrasting it with other vices. The narrator warns readers to resist the pull of labor and laments its grip on life, urging nations to suppress it like rum. Includes scattered political quips and odd snatches about current events.
Shakespeare Society of Washington presents The Merchant of Venice at Central High School auditorium Wednesday night opening the fourth annual convention of the National Shakespeare Federation. Officers will be elected and committee reports presented at a Thursday business meeting at the Colonial School High at 16th and Q streets. Addresses by Prof C Alphonso Smith and Mrs John H. John and others will be given at 8 o clock Thursday evening. Shakespeare birthday banquet at the Colleagueal School ballroom Friday night will close the convention.
Record attendance as 809000 visitors flock to the National Zoo after Chief Hollister announces new arrivals from Dr William Mann. The shipment includes two rare Howler monkeys, agoutis, Central American squirrels, and kinkajous in temporary quarters on exhibit.
Senator Thomas Sterling of South Dakota will be the principal speaker at the seventh annual dinner of the Columbian George Washington University Law School Association Friday evening at the City Club. Extemporaneous speeches will be made by several alumni and officers will be elected. Members of the senior class have been notified.
The first meeting of the executive officers of the Southern Commercial Congress will be held in their new quarters at Vermont avenues and Hietraet northwest on April 29. Col Thomas FR Preston, president of the Hamilton National Bank of Chattanooga, will preside in attendance.
The text blends mystic forecasts with fashion notes. It mentions a destined happy marriage after trials, storms signaling business luck or trouble, and advices on weathered success. It also describes new cotton frocks with embroidery, organza trim, and lavender linen styles with belts and buckles.
Fragmented output from a 1920s era piece blends humorous social commentary on marriage roles with scattered notes on dreams and somatic stimuli. The text references a 1926 copyright and hints at dream theory and sexuality while diverging into unrelated passages about pricing and a reef wash in Washington.
Holtin Bond of People's Opera Company issues a call for rehearsal tonight at Wilson Normal School Community Center. The next production will be Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Pa-Hones, likely in June. John T. Hillott, praised for Koko in The Mikado, will be featured.
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