Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function began to be discussed, relative to the Cruiser Bill, relict of the last Congress. Did the U. S. need more light cruisers? In view of the passage of the Kellogg Peace Treaty, should the U. S. feel that appropriating money for more naval armament would be a belligerent act? The issues were complex and contested. The question seemed likely to absorb the Senate for a good part of the present session...
...Campbell, no doctor, but a Louisville-trained lawyer who has been a Food & Drugs Act watchdog for the Department of Agriculture for more than 20 years, has been narrowly watching the dopesters' printed promises. They have been very cautious about putting unwarranted claims upon the labels of their products, because they know that thereby they render themselves liable to prosecution, fine and imprisonment under the Food & Drugs Act. But the Act does not apply to advertisements in newspapers, magazines, brochures or handbills. And through such bypasses slick manufacturers have made their effect on people inclined to take advertising claims...
House Unguarded. Two bibulous journalists in Panama are discussing the murder of the colonel. One third of the play is devoted to the enacting of one newspaper man's theory of the murder. One third is the other's theory, and the third act is the actual revelation of the slaying as exposed by a principal to the deed...
...Plymouth theatre, is to be believed. Indeed, the fate of a treaty between France and Spain is seen to depend on the success Gaston, the French military attache has in his attentions to Manuela, the wife of the Spanish war minister, who is its chief opponent. The first act sees him committed to this amourous campaign in the name of patriotism; the second carries it on hilariously to the verge of a successful conclusion, and needless to say by the final curtain victory has come to the banners of love and France...
...masked voodoo witch man impressing an African tribe with small-time vaudeville tricks, is no handsomer than usual. Chancy, with paralyzed legs, crawls on his hands or pushes himself in a wheelchair. Never believable, the plot involves a number of scenes in which Chancy, Mary Nolan and Lionel Barrymore act with the naivete, but without the conviction, of a high-school class in the Commencement play...