Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swear allegiance came the three Regents of Rumania, who will rule until King Michael is of age (1939). Observers necessarily recalled that the Regency Act (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) was forced through Parliament by Dictator Bratiano with no other purpose than to secure as regents three puppets. First is Prince Nicholas, 23, a youth of no experience in statecraft; and the other two regents, both over 60, and both "Bratiano men," are the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Rumania, Miron Cristea, and Supreme Court Chief Justice G. V. Buzdugan. The choice of Chief Justice Buzdugan was especially shrewd...
...best telephone service that the world affords-and constantly bettering that-that they have no time to play the roles of alarm clocks, chronometers, et cetera, to the public. Telephone companies could undertake to deliver the milk, take the children to school, lock up the house, and act as burglar alarms. On the other hand, why not let telephone people keep at their development of communication-telephone, telephoto, television, and what next? H. B. MclNTYRE Division Engineer New England Tel. & Tel. Co. Providence, R. I. Strawberry Rash
...Acts of God." As is usual during an earthquake, there occurred last week throughout the Holy Land numerous examples of what U. S. courts and lawyers call an "Act of God." Examples...
...being all-important, Dr. Millspaugh tightened that screw first. For example, His Highness the Sipahdar-i-Azam, onetime Prime Minister, was pressed for payment of millions in back taxes. Soon His Highness committed suicide, first proclaiming that his sole rea son for this act was "unendurable American extortion." Other nobles paid. Progress was made -slowly...
...even in a theatre. It has the perfection of a weed that grows unashamedly where Nature intended. It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which the Soul of Candor replies with a tolerant shrug, "Sure, if you got a market for it, sure it pays...