Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, we left at eleven-twenty; by that time Orson Welles' "Five Kings" had got through the whole of Henry IV Part One, and up to the crowning of Henry V in Part II; some people said that Henry V made a third act, also, but we had to get home in time to milk the cows...
...former inmate of a Rome insane asylum, shot and wounded a Fascist militiaman guarding the Dictator's Villa Torlonia on Rome's Via Nomentana. Said press reports from Rome: The man was waiting for a chance at Premier Mussolini. Said an official Italian communique: It was the act of a madman who simply happened to be in the vicinity of the Premier's house...
...Conference "Ding" Darling formed his National Wildlife Federation, a fish-flesh-&-fowl made up of all factions in the conservation movement. Since then the Pittman-Robertson Act has set aside the 10% excise tax on sporting arms & ammunition for wildlife propagation and research. Hunters and animal-lovers, unified at last, have pushed through many a national and State fish-&-game law. Last week, when the fourth annual North American Wildlife Conference opened in Detroit, the Federation was going strong...
...week's end the Monopoly Committee rang down the curtain on insurance, will raise it again in the spring.* Next act: an FTC lecture on its long dealings with general business, to be followed by the Federal Alcohol Administration on liquor...
...sleepy Southern town which is becoming an industrial centre without the old inhabitants knowing it. The time is 1909. The night before the ceremony they quarrel; Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins to drink; when the time comes Jennie goes to the altar, just as everyone knew she would...