Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began when white and red men first saw each other some four and one quarter centuries ago; which ceased to be violent with the battle of Wounded Knee, S. Dak., (near Pine Ridge) in 1890; which entered a new phase in 1924 when President Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, declaring all native-born Indians citizens...
...boundaries. That put an end to treaties, but it was not retroactive. Land that had been acknowledged, in various of the 370 prior treaties made between the U. S. and the Indians, as belonging to tribes of Indians, was allotted to individual Indians in those tribes under an act of 1897. Some 206,000 Indians received private property by these allotments...
...years, Mr. Foy is returning to the vaudeville stage for a farewell tour. The Fallen Star is the vehicle that takes him through the Keith-Albee theatres. This one-act sketch by Tom Barry tells of the plight of a once idolized actor who, in old age, is reduced to the position of doorman. Enthusiastic, Mr. Foy's friends urge him to revive Rip Van Winkle, one of the plays in which Joseph Jefferson toured the country...
...held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect. Said he: "I feel like flinging a brick at a reporter when he refers to me as a 'gentleman of the cloth.' A preacher should dress and act so that no one suspects he is a minister and should avoid the 'Belasco collar...
Tartuffe. Probably no actor alive can make one physiognomy do for two faces better than Emil Jannings, so that it is fitting he should act the hypocrite of Moliere's story. Unfortunately, his ability to make himself look repulsive while duping the helpless Orgon, is hardly enough to galvanize the play...