Word: actuallity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also on the air last week was Ganna Walska, charming wife of Harold McCormick, famed more for her wish to sing than for any actual singing. Many a manager has announced Wisher Walska, many an audience has been disappointed until newsmen have denied her a voice and she herself has pleaded stagefright. Evidently the microphone held less terror than a sea of faces for Wisher Walska sang over the radio last week as scheduled, prettily, quaveringly, the "Dich teure Halle" from Tannhauser, Giordoni's Coro Mio Ben, and "Daddy's Sweetheart" by Liza Lehmann...
...appears a statement about a dispatch from Mexico telling "of Lindbergh slaying an antelope from an airplane in Mexico." This statement appeared widely in the daily press. OUTDOOR LIFE did not believe this statement. Amongst hunters it is not considered sporting to use such advanced mechanical aids in the actual taking of game. Col. Lindbergh certainly stands as the embodiment of American ideals of sportsmanship. Consequently we investigated the report The newspaper reporter, as is common in stories about wild animals, had considered the romance of the fancied of more news value than the actual fact. Apparently Col. Lindbergh...
Mechanism. In theory the House is run by a Speaker, a Majority Leader, a Minority Leader, the Rules Committee, the chairmen of the several committees-and an unofficial body known as the Republican Steering Committee. In actual practice the legislative program is framed and executed by a small group of insiders who constitute "the works" of the House. Some are prominent, some merely proficient. All are influential, in that they control important blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal...
Thus far the audience sees only Lindbergh Number One, played by M. Armand Chatraine, a youth who was thought by all his friends to resemble the Colonel at the time of Lindbergh's actual landing in France (TIME...
...Actual work in college is undoubtedly the best test of a student's qualification to remain there. Insofar as their physical limitations will permit colleges would do well permit colleges would do well to follow the Law School in establishing admissions standards within rather than at the beginning of the Freshman year...