Word: acts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specialty act that will be presented for the first time is to be given by G. W. Briggs '31 and R. G. Edward '31. J. S. B. Archer '30, tenor soloist, will be featured in a group of folk-songs recently added to his repertoire and the Gold Coast Orchestra, under the direction of B. D. Hanighen '30, will contribute a few selections of dance music to the program...
...which seems as valid as this, strikes an excitement-craving audience as a lame solution indeed. But Messrs, Nichols and Browne lay no claims to clairvoyance, and would probably be the first to admit that their play is incomplete because a human creation, and that their first act is the most valuable...
...Act I you are left wondering how the problem is to be solved, half hoping that it will be, yet knowing that the attainment of a god-like objectivity would first be necessary. And, sure enough, Acts II and III leave the "drame a these", and rely purely on their value as good theatre to carry them over. As theatre they go over, but what gave promise of being a problem play that would not soon be outdated by the quick solution of the problem in the world outside the theatre, turns into a rather good melodrama whose prime fault...
...genuine desire for peace [on the part of Mr. Stimson] might have prompted him [to act] much earlier, even the first week after the Chinese broke the letter and the spirit of the Kellogg Pact by violent and unauthorized seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and arbitrary measures against Soviet citizens" (TIME, July...
Almost the first act of the trustees was to appoint Charles Evans Hughes counsel. To him will come not only the routine problems of passing on the legality of the triumvirate's financing, but the problem of facing the suit brought against Fox last fortnight by the Government, charging violation of the Clayton anti-trust law by its ownership of Loew...