Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed, the new laws will be found hard to enforce. Mince pie, in Kansas as elsewhere, is often so disguised as to make detection difficult. In Oregon, the law could be easily rendered impotent in its intended purpose by showing cigarette posters of attractive young girls in the act of smoking. But the biscuit squad of Oklahoma will have the hardest task. Armed with tape-lines, they must enter every kitchen in the state and make sure that no "society biscuits" are being made. It will be a job for heroes--or state legislators...
Alone he created Saturday's Children, a drama of marriage between young things who must earn their living. Act I: heroine gets man by an old-time formula. Act II: romance wilts before love is done. Gas bills, grocers, butchers, goad the lovers into separation and sorrowing. Act III: comes reconciliation when the hero steals into his wife's bedroom for the same good reason that inspired young Porphyro to see Magdeline on the Eve of St. Agnes...
...visit her correspondent and supposed lover. She is so chagrined at finding the wrong man that the hero has to save the train from being wrecked before the ending can become happy. On the whole, it might better have tumbled over the great declivity at the end of Act...
...securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon he beseeches them "not to go over that ground again. Business is business." But in the last act, his own cherished sister is in trouble, and on account of one of these very same friends. So Lawyer Connell learns his lesson, makes a good resolution just before he goes out on his last questionable trial in behalf of his sister's betrayer. Everybody has a heart of gold...
Later in the day at 7 o'clock, also in the Smith Halls Common Room, the first meeting for all Freshman candidates will be held. At this meeting, Coach Brown and Captain Platt will again be present, as will also Haines who this year will again act as coach of the Freshman eights, a position he resigned last spring to assume charge of the University boat at New London...