Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scenes throughout are simple, and effective, perhaps the best done of all being those of the third act...
...against U. S. goods. The note gave a detailed explanation of the U. S. tariff law. It opposed firmly the principle of reciprocity and demanded that France grant the U. S. most-favored-nation treatment under pain of sanctions authorized by Article No. 317 of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, which empowers the President to increase by 50% the duties on the goods of a nation discriminating against the U. S. The French Government took the matter under advisement. An answer was thought likely to be despatched to Washington as soon as the French Cabinet had reviewed the situation...
That was more than five years ago. Since that time the situation has changed. Hungary was compelled by the Little Entente to pass a law forever excluding the Habsburgs. But Hungarians regard this law as an act of duress. At the first possible opportunity they will pass another law; but whether that law will restore Otto to his royal rights, proclaim his popular cousin (Albrecht) king or allow the National Assembly to elect whomsoever it pleases, nobody can say. All that Hungarians are conscious of is that their "Kingless Kingdom on the Danube" is an anomaly that, for political reasons...
...trial was on. The dull courtroom walls fairly trembled as attorney for the defense and district attorney tore out confessions of shame, innocence, guilt. Gradually the weight of evidence shifts in favor of the defense and when the final curtain falls, the audience, appealed to through the three acts as a Jury, not only knows what verdict to render but also understands what made Mary Dugan take to a life of shame. Act divisions are brought about by court adjournments. Rex Cherryman, who is swiftly rising to preeminence among young actors, acts as brother and defending attorney for accused...
...strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from sorrow this faithful husband, whom she does not love. Truth breaks her strangle hold in the tearstains of a tense last act. The earlier acts were smaller drama...