Word: accessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missouri Offers Easy Access...
Next, he comes snorting into the tent of Sharon Falconer, a pretty, vicious and successful evangelist. The audience is permitted to hear his harangues for heaven and then to overhear the back stage scene wherein Gantry gains quick access to the couch of this ignorant and lusty lady. With her he goes to Atlantic City, to inaugurate a pier tabernacle, the biggest in the world. It is while he is making scurrilous advances to a choir singer that Elmer Gantry, casting away a cigaret causes this gaudy temple to burst into flames-a conflagration reproduced upon the stage with tissue...
...stage. The "legits" had been forced to fight the cinema with weapons that the cinemagnates introduced. But no smile twisted the cheeks of the more astute picturemen. To these wiser ones the action of the stagemen seemed a threat. The Brothers Shubert alone own, control or have easy access to more than 30 theatres in the provinces. Less powerful individually but dangerous en masse are Hammerstein, Brady, Woods, lesser lights. The Vocafilm reputedly costs less to install than does Movietone, Vitaphone. Further, cinemagnates recalled that the popularity of "talkies," particularly Vitaphone, was due largely to ability to present to audiences...
...When I recall the claims made by feminists a few years ago of the vast access of strength and wisdom to the councils of nations which would follow the extension of the franchise to include women, I cannot but feel that there is reason for a certain disillusionment. . . . Women have not merely failed to demonstrate superior political aptitude to that of men, but at no time have they shown even the promise of ripe statesmanship. . . . The incursion of women into industry and politics has failed, is failing, and must of necessity fail...
...sons" on one such occasion). The American Minister, having addressed His Majesty and perceived that he is not deaf, and having received from his own eyes and daughters, ample testimony of the six-year-old monarch's normalcy, was able and glad to reassure Rumanians who had not access to their King. A scurrilous despatch from Bucharest, last week, envisioned His Majesty as licking with relish and sticking onto many an envelope stamps of the new series which bears his portrait...