Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge Jr., a Mrs. A. Mildred Odalivitch, of Seattle, Washington, last week, begged Mrs. Coolidge to intercede for Mark Dowell, her son, who was sentenced to hang at San Quentin, Calif., for killing a San Francisco policeman. Mrs. Coolidge did what she could. She asked President Coolidge to act. He in turn asked Attorney-General Sargent to tell Mrs. Odalivitch what course to take. The Sargent advice was to appeal to a justice of the United States Supreme Court, to review the case. That had already been done unsuccessfully. Mark Dowell was hanged...
...against the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. I was also against the Mann Act. Not because I want to get drunk or pay the carfare of a lady from one State to another, but because our government was founded on the principle that the central authority should not act except where the States cannot. I think it was a very unwise departure for the national government to attempt to regulate personal conduct...
...last act exhibits further highlights in the sky pilot's hypocritical career. He is the Rev. Dr. Elmer Gantry now, but no less eager to share a bed of shame. At the end, there is no lessening of his success nor any change of tactics. He is seen spewing, before an unseen congregation, a prayer that "we may make this a moral nation...
Patrick Kearney, who wrote the first two acts of the play, was consistent enough to be frankly and fearfully melodramatic. The cast is scattered through the theatre in reckless, impertinent profusion and the technique of The Miracle and murder mysteries is carried so far as to include a sidewalk revival meeting before the final act...
Guns. At Wallack's Theatre in Manhattan, called by a punster "the flophouse" because of the many failures it has housed, opened last week a piece called Guns. The first act was laid in a speakeasy in Manhattan, the second in a speakeasy in Chicago, the third at the Mexican border. Charlie O'Connor, Chicago racketeer, induced chaste Cora Chase to go with him to the Mexican-U.S. line, there to smuggle contraband Chinese into the states. Into the picture another racketeer, "The Colorado Special," thrust himself, looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined...