Word: antis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seen in cold type the plot, besides ending up with a sagging anti-climax, contains such venerable stage devices as the arrival of an unexpected legacy just in time to save the furniture from ravening creditors. But under the capable handling of a cast headed by Janet Beecher it takes on a plausibility and conviction that makes the final impression eminently satisfactory. Miss Beecher has the inherently unsympathetic role of a widowed mother who has squandered her childrens' patrimony through a combination of poor business judgement and extravagance and whose compensating virtues are limited to a determination to keep them...
...climate is also favorable to animal life and because of this fact, several species of poisonous reptiles abound there. With the purpose in view of reducing the large number of fatalities resulting annually from snakebite the Instituto Butantan has a large group of herpetologists engaged in perfecting an anti-venin for snake bites. It was to this staff that Dr. Allen spoke...
Chief political figure on the anti-export side stood former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster (1925-29). No good friends are ex-Governors Brewster and Baxter. More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful. Each hopes to succeed Maine's Senator Arthur Robinson Gould in next year's election. These two sunk their teeth into the power export bill and pulled in opposite directions. Last week Maine defeated power export by a majority of some 10,000 votes in 125,000 cast...
Prohibitionist though he was, Kvale not only called the Volstead Act "the greatest tragedy ever witnessed by civilization," but denounced Anti-Saloon Leaguers as "cheap ward politicians wearing the mask of Prohibition." He condemned Prohibition agents who hastily shot down a Minnesotan suspected "of being a bootlegger." (TIME, June...
...Jugoslavia is the outstanding European producer of opium. The chairman of the League's somnolent anti-narcotics committee is Jugoslavia's swarthy Constantine Fotitch. Last week he reported to the Assembly on means of checking the opium traffic, spoke with eloquent circumlocution, repeated several times "we must wait and hope...