Word: actes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Professor Huber, manager of a troupe of fleas, conducted his performers from a burning building to the street with the loss of only one, J. Caesar, who did the gladiatorial act. Said a bystander to Professor Huber: "You must treat them gently to make them so obedi- ent." Said he: "I treat 'em gentle or I treat 'em rough according to their nature and their needs. They're artists...
...chair, blows a gold whistle. All the men and women who have piled off the train in the dusk parade, but are now transformed. They wear gay colors and spangles. They mince and prance and stick out their bosoms. The acrobats look flatfooted, the equestrians are bowlegged, the clowns act drunk. It is, of course, the circus, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus- never changing, except to become, as Press Agent Dexter Fellowes must repeat in his sleep, "bigger and better." This year many old favorites are back including Lillian Leitzel, pretty enough for Mr. Ziegfeld to glorify...
...12th Century Jewish physician-philosopher-teacher: "0 God, Thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness; thou hast united in him innumerable forces incessantly at work like so many instruments, so as to preserve in its entirety this beautiful house containing his immortal soul, and these forces act with all the order, concord and harmony imaginable. . . . 0, God, Thou hast appointed me to watch o'er the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I, ready for my vocation." Medical students study this prayer, along with the "Oath of Hippocrates" and its spirit has guided their...
...President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill known officially as H. R. No. 632, known unofficially as the White Act. Of its many sections, the 17th was destined to cause the most trouble. For it provided that U. S. radio companies and U. S. cable (telegraph, telephone) companies should never unite, if their union might "substantially lessen competition ... or restrain commerce . . . or unlawfully create a monopoly...
Competition. So complete, so thoughtfully lucid is the White Act, that its meaning could not be twisted to meet the desires of the most ingenious mergophile. If the union of I.T.&T. with R.C.A. Communications will "substantially lessen competition," the Lamont-Young deal will be held a violation of the law, will doubtless be haled before the courts. As Negotiators Lamont and Young are famed not only as financiers, but also as highly ethical businessmen and citizens, they could scarcely plan to flout the law. The only possible alternative, therefore, is the proposition that radio and telegraph...