Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Winners of first, second, and third places will receive medals, according to an announcement made last night. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Muir will probably act as judges...
...Governor, in whose hands the matter now is, will do well to ignore them for the present. He needs but look to the original evidence, measure, if he can, the almost overwhelming doubt that meets the eye as to the actual guilt of the men. Sacco and Vanzetti, and act accordingly...
Soon all delegates were busy plowing through 500,000 wards of research material provided by the League Secretariat. No delegate has any power to act for his Government. All are met for full and frank discussion...
...Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard a train at Rome, attended by four nurses and his sister, the Honorable Constance Gibson. Thus guarded, she left Italy for an English destination kept rigidly secret lest misguided vengeance follow...
Julie. "Thees Pierre, 'e iz one dam fine bootlaig, mais nevaire, nevaire will I make ze marriage wiz him" is the type of dialogue that drove many of the audience home at the end of Act II. Some remained to snicker at tense moments. The plot involves a drunken Canuck mother who sells her daughter, Julie, to a bootlegger for two cases of Scotch. There is also the stalwart Yankee youth who saves the girl over the disapproval of his tight little mother, and a bady who did not belong to Julie after...