Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current piece, "The War Song", George Jessel has tried to put over just one more play touching the recent unpleasantness. It gets off to a slow start and the first act is rather tiring, though from time to time the explosion of a good gag recharges the air. Eddie, the little East Side song plugger is drafted and-runs off to Armentieres, but that basic development takes almost an hour. There is of course, his sister's boy friend whom he distrusts, who he later finds ain't done right by her, and whom he chances to meet again...
...very sorry about that issue" he continued. "If it was the honest opinion of the editors one might excuse it but on the whole I think it was not a wise act...
...human field where the theories may have consequences is in aviation. The airplane motor is operated by electricity set moving by the magneto and intensified by electro-magnetic coils. When the plane is on the ground electricity and its spark act in a definite fashion. Perhaps that fashion changes when the plane is high in the air?powerfully lifted against the earth's force of gravity and swiftly moved with or against earth's rotational force. The possibility of such change may account for some airplane accidents. Perhaps such possible changes can be foreseen, calculated, forestalled. Perhaps?not to venture...
...treasurer, who is also to act as production manager, and two other members of the executive board are to be chosen by the executive board. No definite plans as to the spring production were divulged...
...reasons why we do certain things and do not to others--why people act as they do. Here are answers to questions raised since the publication of "Why we behave like human beings...