Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drink (that he knows of), has never smoked tobacco, has seen, he says, only one drunken man in all his life. His range of legislative interest has by no means been confined to prohibition. No smooth speaker, never brilliant, his name is nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment of papers and books, hard at work. No hail-fellow-well-met, he is not on easy, congenial...
Senator Jones's unhappiness over the Five & Ten Act was increased last week when New York's volunteer committee of lawyers to defend Five & Ten victims unearthed and republished a statement made by Senator Jones in 1921 on the Senate floor. He had said...
Michigan last week shuffled its criminal code and gave 'leggers a new deal. The State repealed its "life-for-a-pint" law which sent fourth-offending liquor dispensers away for all time. From Michigan's habitual criminal act were excepted 120 minor felonies, including the wearing of a lodge pin without authority. As a compensation to the Anti-Saloon League, the State Legislature decreed that every prohibition violator must go to jail for from 50 days to four years, and pay a fine...
...fleet ("England expects every man will do his duty") and his last words to his aide ("Kiss me, Hardy") are shown in written titles borrowed from history and from the novel by E. Barrington. Victor Varconi as a handsome Nelson, H. B. Warner as a subtle cuckold, act well in episodes of which the theatricality seems no more than appropriate treatment of an age and a hero also theatrical. Best shot: the cockpit of the thundering Victory...
Last week, 'Chicago's Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson and Lexington's Rector Charles Stewart Hale joined in praising him for a renunciatory act. But Dr. Abbott was content to say merely, "It will bring me into contact with all sorts of people; the rich and fashionable, the poor and mountaineers." He intends traveling through his diocese by automobile...