Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king and many another. In the last act one gang drops bombs on the other from an airplane, filling the theatre with smoke and confusion. The action-of which there is plenty-is largely laid in the beer king's den, a place of small tables, gats, a periscope, and other gangish claptrap. Here, in a moment of solicitous passion, one of the beer king's favorites whispered to a hushed house: "It ull sunds...
...mass of plays that go the rounds of the producers' offices, people sometimes ask him for a formula, a hint of how to know. Jed Harris, like every truly successful producer, has no system. Three of his four most famed productions are full of fast action, two are full of profanity, which proves nothing, except that he knows that people like such things in plays...
Flip! The first service was spun. Into action sprang Helen Wills and Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor in the 41st annual women's championship tournament at Forest Hills, L. I. Twenty-two minutes later they shook hands, Miss Wills a 6-0, 6-1 victor over Mrs. Taylor...
...last week, tire manufacturers took vigorous action to meet the menace of the mail order houses. Two months ago, the dormant Rubber Institute was brought to life under the directorship of onetime Prohibition Commissioner Lincoln C. Andrews. Its first arresting act was the insertion, last week, of large advertisements in 400 daily newspapers. Speaking for 44 companies, Tsar Andrews pungently flayed the mileage guarantee. This practice, so profitable to mail order houses, was branded thus...
...fourth, with old age creeping on, he proves himself master of the art of being betrayed. Kashiwagi, Prince Genji's friend, cuckolds him with his girl-bride, Nyosan. In the fury of discovery Genji plans glorious revenge. But his usual dignity, mellowed by age, prevents him from hasty action, and allows of reconsideration. For it has occurred to him that in his youth he had seduced a concubine of the old Emperor, his own father, and though the old man must have known perfectly well what was going on, he had pretended not to see. Taking counsel from this...