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Word: actions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MeGeehan took occasion yesterday to note down in his own widely syndicated style his impressions of the action of the French Lawn Tennis association in reestablishing M. Forst as an amateur. Apparently this happy outcome was reached after the offender had handed over the tainted francs not to his manager Mr. Pyle but to the Association which dictates his standing. It was a situation well adapted to the pen of the famous columnist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEST PROPOSAL | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

Perceiving that he had blundered, Senator Reed shifted his attack from the Press to the unnamed tattling Senator. With correspondents glaring at him from the gallery, he admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senate v. Press | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...story?a pitch originally far and not always convincingly above the pitch of prose life?becomes merely the concentration necessary for getting so many lives and deaths into the hour-and-a-quarter of a feature picture. A sermon clipping the beginning and the end of the action makes clear that the death of the characters on the breaking bridge, coming at a moment of frustration for each of them, is proof of divine mercy. Best shots: Lily Damita dictating a letter to a bull fighter; Raquel Torres saying goodbye to Estaban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...furthermore that there was no ground for attributing the motive of the editorial to anything other than the editorial policy of the Post. ". . . The Record makes this correction, and regrets exceedingly the error." Guessing that the next news would be Publisher McLean's withdrawal of his million-dollar action, readers of the hard-hitting Record, and of other publications which had touched on the case of Publisher McLean v. Prince de Ligne, transferred their attention elsewhere. Infant Shame. The minimum age at which a person can be embarrassed, shamed and disgraced has never been clearly defined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...annoyed at the fact that Phillips Brooks House is not sending an official representative to the North field conference that they have taken it upon themselves to make up an unofficial delegation. We were much interested in an editorial in your paper about a month ago praising the action of P. B. H. in this matter and regret that any members of the CRIMSON board should take it upon themselves personally to reverse the policy of the board in such a flagrant way. R. S. Morison '30. R. G. West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Priceless Consistency | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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