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Word: actioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

Pedagogs and libertarians join this week celebrating the 70th birthday of Columbia University's shaggy John Dewey, pedagog, libertarian, "greatest living U. S. philosopher." Philosopher Dewey celebrated the coming event himself by marching last week, as chairman of a new league for independent political action, to a radio microphone to broadcast his indictment of U. S. politics. His phrases sounded earnest but threadbare. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Errand Boys | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...partisan view. Therefore it corrupts the stream of public information. What the world needs is truth, all sides of every story, written by disinterested hands, with sources carefully identified.'' The editorial ended by stating that "newspaperdom, or that part of it which is conscientiously devoted to independent action that the people may know all, would greatly rejoice if President Butler would put the key into the door of this particular classroom and turn it for all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columbia Flayed | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The result is incredibly novel, exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hallowe'en Horrors | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...western graduate the new press box will assure a better game than ever before, for although many miles removed from the scene of action, the radio booths, and the myriads of wires including the fastest wire in the country will crystallize the picture in greater detail than he has formerly been able to enjoy. In thus providing the Stadium with one of the best press sections in the country the Athletic Association has made an investment upon which large dividends in terms of accurate and timely news and the attendant public interest should be realized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TOP OF THE STADIUM | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

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