Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better to aid-the-farmer, President Hoover last week exercised power given him last winter in the Farm Relief Act and transferred to the Federal Farm Board the entire personnel, equipment and functions of the Department of Agriculture's division of co-operative marketing...
...excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger and invective they learned he had been a prizefight, cabaret and theatre promoter; an actor playing...
...that matter is the writing--done at a period when all the important characters had "exits" in the last act, with appropriate pauses for the audience to applaud in, when every situation was suggested, built up, and reached with a mechanical inevitability--the day of the "well-made play." Fortunately, that rigidity doesn't hold these days. In a period of nine-act dramas, of comedies taking place in a character's mind, of slangy racketeer melodrama the obvious mechanisms of Harry B. Smith's farce strike one as outdated, rusty, but serviceable...
...question depended on the Equity contract clause stating: "The management is not responsible for fire, strikes, or an act of God." Mr. Harris declared the expected MacArthur baby was certainly "an act of God." The protesting actors said it was no such thing...
...Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk...