Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important pieces of legislation referred to were, of course, the Deficiency Bill, the Revenue Act, the Alien Property Bill. In addition, from Dec. 5 to Dec. 21 the House had passed 19 other bills and joint resolutions, and 25 resolutions requiring House action only...
...Just as I was on the point of returning home I learned of your proposal to break off relations with Soviet Russia and demand the withdrawal of the Soviet consulates. This act, if carried out, will be suicidal, isolating China and retarding her progress...
...none other than the old-fashioned badger game. But in the midst of the machinations the girl-crook decides that, however profitable it may be, the badger game isn't cricket. Unaccountably, she has fallen in love with the husband whom she had married for profit. In the last act she turns her dishonest companions over to the police, recaptures from them some of the money she has hornswoggled out of her husband, and prepares for a legitimate honeymoon. As a bad badger player, Irene Homer is a capable actress, but the play palls...
...sane enough to be at large. Refusal of this petition did not daunt Mr. Remus. He received kisses and congratulations from the jurors in his cell and hysterically pledged the rest of his life to "stifling the insult which is upon our statutes known as the National Prohibition Act...
...went forth on a quest, spent two years among the Magyar peasants, listening and remembering. He found the real Hungarian folk-tunes akin to early ecclesiastic music, their rhythms more like Bach and Handel than like Liszt. He collected nearly 3,000 of them. He turned put a one-act opera, two ballet-pantomimes, seven orchestral scores, two string quartets, songs and some piano music. His last works are best...