Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away, but she only pretends to have somebody with her. Her tentative paramour gets off the train as it is leaving the station. William Somerset Maugham's epigrams on the sound device, and intelligent acting by a well-chosen cast, suggest what U. S. audiences have learned to accept as the authentic atmosphere of a London drawing-room. Imogene Wilson, now Mary Nolan, plays satirically and deftly as the blonde girl who brings about the inconstancy of the constant wife's husband. Best shot: The ladies mouthing epigrams at tea. Imogene Wilson's long eyelashes, big blue...
Often of late in Washington has been heard the phrase, "New Patriots." President Hoover coined it himself to apply to the potent citizens he was drawing into Federal service. To these men he explains that they are patriots because each of them makes a "personal sacrifice" to accept appointment. The "sacrifice" meant by the President in most cases is a heavy loss of income, plus the presumptive inconvenience if not discomfort of leaving home to visit or live in Washington...
...accept the pact of peace as a covenant of personal and national honor...
...cinemaland-he painted Director Cruze behind bars. Said Mr. Cruze: "I was the most surprised man in the world when I saw it. Mouth like a gargoyle, face like a frog, it made me look like an Apache or something worse. I told Decker I wouldn't accept it. I told him I wanted a portrait, not a funny picture...
...Washington had met an Editorial Council of the Religious Press. One of the questions discussed was: "What should be the attitude of the religious press toward the movies?" The Churchman took opportunity to editorialize as follows: "[Church journals] were willing, like other groups in America, to accept the statement of the motion picture industry that Will Hays had been employed to 'clean up the movies.' The editors are under not the slightest illusion that Mr. Hays has done so ... Mr. Hays ... is a skillful writer of letters to editors and leaders of religious groups. Anyone who has heard him speak...