Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quotation is inaccurately given by Scarlett & Stutz, Inc. See any copy of Hamlet, Act I, Scene V, Line...
...Moro Provinces. Mindanao and Sulu, inhabited by Mohammedans, should not be separated politically from the rest of the islands,- but U. S. control in these provinces might well be strengthened to prevent Moro-Filipino animosity. Miscellaneous. The Filipino government should withdraw from its private business enterprises immediately. The Jones Act, fundamental law governing the Philippines, should not now be changed. Colonel Thompson's report, comprehensive though it is, produced nothing startling. His recommendations seldom veered from the happy middle ground. Hence, the applause was extensive, well-mannered; there were few jeers or raucous cheers. President Coolidge said that...
...Nodded sardonic approval as Viscount Burnham whimsically expounded the Judicial Proceedings Act to suppress publication of evidence in divorce cases (TIME, Dec. 20) as follows...
...Marshal to desire is to act. The Sejm was not in session, but there might be some politicians skulking in the Parliament building. There were. A committee, sparsely attended, was mulling drowsily over the War Department appropriations in the budget. Suddenly the door flew open. A big, fierce-mustached man, clad in an old faded uniform, strode in. He sat down at the committee table, folded his arms, scowled, sniffed the air contemptuously, said nothing...
...life to explain his reputation." The strength of the irony is as the strength of ten because Author Erskine exercises restraint, discretion, grace instead of horseplay. Member of the English faculty at Columbia University, facile, dignified, popular, 47, married (1910), Author Erskine's most recent public act of moment was reading a memorial poem at the Phi Beta Kappa sesquicentennial last month (TIME...