Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...routine order. France having lately an- nounced large tariff raises on similar U. S. products, it was mandatory for the U. S. Department of the Treasury-unless otherwise advised by the U. S. Department of State-to reply in kind, under a "countervailing" clause of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. But in light of the current tariff imbroglio of France and the U. S. (see p. 18), during which the U. S. Department of State had been at pains to explain that the U. S. tariff policy is not discriminatory, newsgatherers naturally went scurrying to the Department...
...waning gate receipts and catch the midnight flyer for Manhattan, leaving ingenue and heavy to learn milking. But Actors' Equity, the protective union of the theatre, has in a great measure eliminated such incidents. Managers are protected against actors who break contracts; they are henceforward not allowed to act in any Equityontrolled theatre. On the other hand they are obliged to file a bond with Equity of sufficient size to pay each member of the cast a week's salary and his fare to Broadway. Many of the profession's finest artists are unwilling to submit themselves to the construction...
Jean Rodemich seems to have become a perenial fixture at the Metropolitan and this year he has improved only slightly. There is much less of his usual solo playing and he has found a fair supporting act in the Albertina Rach dancers...
...would suggest that any husband in such circumstances could employ with wrath-averting dignity the self-effacing answer Bassanio made to Portia's magnificent devotion of herself: "Madam, you have bereft me of all words."-Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene...
...answer is absurdly simple. No man seeking a definite information or wishing to school himself in some hitherto unknown branch of knowledge should rely on the Vagabond's tutelage. The Vagabond scarcely pretends to act as a substitute for the distributional system. What he has to offer is of a cosmopolitan nature in that it is composed of foreign elements, the filling of gaps in student ignorance is beyond the scope of mere vagabondage...