Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage show is commonplace, aside from the antics of Herschel Heniere. His performance; at the piano and as a one-man orchestra is good enough to counter act the series of mediocre dances that precede...
...very interested in finding out how two colleges act towards each other in a social way the night before a big football game", said Dorothy Britton, famous Earl Carroll beauty, when asked how it felt to be the guest of honor at a large intercollegiate dance...
...play, however good a background it gives Miss Cornell, does not however do justice to her and its success is due entirely to her interpretation. It is Miss Cornell alone that saves a slow moving and dull first act from being a complete failure. The action speeds up however and the last two acts do not let the interest lag a moment...
...floundering in the water, he dived in, rescued one George E. Rice of Manhattan. Thereafter, Rice and Pye were fast friends, correspondents. Forty-five years passed. Rice became a wealthy soap manufacturer. Several months ago he died. As proof of his repeated statement that he "never would forget the act" of Pye, he willed him his entire estate...
...Platt Amendment, as Candidate Alfred Emanuel Smith did not know but promised to find out during the campaign (TIME, July 23, 1928), was a rider on the Army appropriation act of 1901. It defined the terms under which Cuba might have its liberty, subject to intervention by the U. S. if and when the terms were violated. It was the possibility of Platt Amendment intervention which last fortnight was bothering "El Gallo." Doubtless Mr. Guggenheim, too, perused the Platti-tudes with close attention. In the end, however, the Senate decided that Cuban affairs, though vexed, were not critical. The situation...