Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While in London he worked hard, practiced the art of oratory, was "a constant votary of the play." At the age of 17 he won a scholarship at Balliol and from then on the whole of his 'varsity life was literally one honor after another. Small wonder that his contemporaries predicted great things for him. But, though he was successful at Oxford, his success at the bar, while not so swift, gave him the surest foundation for his political career. As a young barrister he reached the pinnacle of his fame in his able management of the great case...
During his quarter of a century in active Ministerial offices, he ever strained at effective reform of social, labor and industrial conditions. If his great measure, the Factory Bill, was subsequently passed by a Conservative Government (and that in itself was no mean compliment), his Old Age Pensions Act and his fight with the Lords which culminated in the Parliament Act of 1911 remain unique monuments to a life of splendid service to his country, for which he has at last consented to accept a high honor from the people through its cherished embodiment, the King...
LOVES AND LOSSES OF PIERROT-William Griffith-Button ($2.00). The prose of this age is positive in spirit, like the prose of the 18th Century; the verse is negative, like the verse of the mid-17th Century poets whose inspiration was the English countryside rather than England. The main current of prose sweeps with the sweep of the times; its movement is, if not heroic, at least large; whereas verse slides, rebellious and cunning, against that heavier tide, like an eddy coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce...
...Last Laugh. The first of the German Ufa films has come at last. With Emil Jannings in the part, it tells the simple story of a hotel door- keeper who is dismissed because of old age. He dies of disappointment in the hotel lavatory and is abruptly brought to life in a regular Hollywood honey ending. The economy of effect, the brilliant play of detail, the simplicity make it a text book to U. S. directors. Unfortunately, even the performance of Herr Jannings cannot make the kindly character tragedy of deep dramatic interest...
...Hermy Unglaub, age insignificant, sent three cents, his whole fortune, with a letter...