Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a three months' vacation, the French Parliament last week reassembled. Its first act was to free four Communist Deputies - MM. Cachin, Duclos, Marty, Doriot-who were imprisoned during the summer for sedition. It was made clear to the four that as soon as the Chamber of Deputies ended its session they must go back to prison and "spend their vacations there." Deputy Franklin-Bouillon and a small party of his friends resigned from the Socialist party and formed the Radical Unionist party, the eleventh in French politics. The session continued...
...buttoned himself into a new dress shirt. Photographers gave their flashlight cameras a final inspection. Such things were important last week to the 3,500 Chicagoans who crowded the Auditorium Theatre for the opening of the Chicago Opera's 17th season. For some ten million others* the second act of Verdi's Traviata was the event of the evening. (Announcement: for the next twelve successive Thursday evenings the Chicago Opera will broadcast...
...people of the United States are getting used to prohibition," Johnson concluded. "Laws are better enforced, and there is a stronger feeling in favor of the Eighteenth Amendment. No law is ever perfect, but the Volstead Act, strictly enforced, will in the next few years become as nearly perfect as a law can become...
...drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until the end of the last act...
...record of accomplishment that can be measured in other terms than those of columnar publicity only the next few days will determine. Some of the less confident of the henchmen of the king's enemy are doubtless patching the larger holes in whatever is to be the third act if this one is ill received...