Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which is skillfully acted by film players trained to understand the camera. The voices come out clearly and naturally, not yet as clearly as real people talking, but modulated so that you forget the sound device. Best shots: Norma Shearer wringing a proposal from Basil Rathbone; Norma Shearer stealing back into her room with her hostess' pearls...
Dinner is Served. To Manhattan's dramatic critics, sneaking back to their kennels, scorched an unwholesome yellow by the country sun, this dull trifle was used as an excuse for bored and wintry sarcasms. It repeated, stupidly, the theatrical cliche of the wife who wanted her husband to love her and whose trite appetites were gratified through the complicating assistance of her husband's friend. Alan Mowbray, of Theatre Guild scrub casts, wrote it himself, a handicap which his histrionic ability was not sufficient to overcome...
Presently M. Briand gave an assurance that on the morrow, after consulting his political colleagues in Paris by wire, he would do what France has never done before : propose a definite date for the evacuation. Before M. Briand's morrow dawned fresh hurling of ultimata back and forth in the financial section of the Conference (see below) had so incensed French public opinion that the French Prime Minister was obliged to retreat. Calling personally on Dr. Stresemann he explained that "pour le moment, I can get no date to announce...
Spinning and weaving Lancashire went back to work, last week, after the most stupendous cotton strike since the War. A half-million sturdy craftsfolk had walked out rather than take a 12½% cut in their meagre pay (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week they trooped triumphantly back to the mills. Under a scheme set up by that sensible Scot, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, they would be paid the old wage, at least until the arbiters had made an award. When first news of this compromise reached such famed cotton towns as Manchester, Blackburn and Oldham, joyous craftsfolk paraded...
...From the northlands, southlands, eastlands and westlands you came at the call of my horn! I have buried this golden hatchet, the emblem of war, enmity and bad feeling. From now on the Scout symbol of peace is a golden arrow. I send you back to your homelands as ambassadors of peace...