Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessity to assuage the American thirst for novelty is the parent of this new indoor spirit--Radio Hypnosis. Suppose, however, that it were more than a Vaudeville Act and that by chance the enterprising Radiologist of WBZ had inadventently disclosed a pearl in the newly cracked oyster...
...legislatures of Massachusetts, Utah, Connecticut and the District of Columbia bills based on the Baumes laws were under consideration; in Kentucky, Louisiana and Minnesota such bills were being prepared; in New Jersey the Biro act (a similar bill) was passed by the Assembly. The Indiana Senate passed a law banning machine guns; Kansas Senators passed a bill reviving capital punishment...
...act of war for the U. S. to fire on my Panama ship," said Captain Stone. Perhaps he did not know that Panama had approved an agreement with the U. S. whereby any ship "guilty of habitual smuggling or piracy against a friendly nation" automatically forfeits its registry. However, a long battle in the Federal courts remains to be fought over the Federalship and its clinking cargo...
...status of student self-government at Princeton appears to us indeterminate. . . . We wish it to be clear that we are expressing neither objection nor approval regarding the act [prohibiting cars] of the Board of Trustees...
...intelligent although far from sparkling play is Laetitia McDonald's (Mrs. Wallace Irwin) "Lady Alone". During the first two acts the audience wonders when the real plot is going to begin and then in the very well done third act, finds that the action has apparently been progressing all the time. The final curtain is a genuine surprise to anyone who has taken the play as a polite little society drama in which the heroine would eventually discover that cats who walk alone often grow weary. If Nina had returned to her diamond-in-the-rough Mr. Brett the result...