Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsequently published a signed sworn statement of violations of this and similar ordinances by other persons but the police simply denied the truth of my charges and refused to act. Your correspondent states with a grieved air that the pamphlets I distributed contained no radical phraseology. True enough. What they did state was that as long as American workers continued to elect to office the nominees of the Capitalist owners of the Republican and Democratic parties, laws would be passed inimical to the working class and that in the administration of existing laws the working class would be discriminated against...
...find the play very interesting," said His Majesty as the second act curtain fell on Subaltern Raleigh sobbing hysterically on his bunk, "and I am looking forward to seeing what happens in the next act...
...Learned from newspapers of the Labor Government's most important act of the week: notification to the German Government by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden that he will not return to the Reich a surplus of $60,000,000 left over from the liquidation of German property seized in Britain during...
...from under and put it up again." In Paris, where she lived when her parents separated, she used to borrow the goat-cart in the Luxembourg Gardens and sell the rides herself. When she was 14 she copied out the entire memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt in longhand, an act of adolescent devotion which may have helped form her whole character and to which the great stage lady was not insensible. Debunkers have labelled this tale a myth but Actress Le Gallienne still has her copybooks, inscribed by Bernhardt, to prove...
Strangely for once a Boston audience seemed to warm up and get into the spirit of the piece. By the middle of the second act very nearly everyone in the house was hissing the dark sleek villain and wildly cheering the hero and his virtuous sayings. It was indeed an unlooked for pleasure to see spectators young and old clapping their hands in high glee in time with the music and stamping heavily on the accented beat. The atmosphere was extremely contagious, and few found it possible to stand aloof from the general merriment...