Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snappy young widows and suffering all the tribulations that are entailed in making themselves appropriately presentable; and those who enjoy seeing simple-minded, timid, young gentlemen involving themselves with innocent but ardent young ladies, saving the day finally through sheer dumbness, acquiring a few millions for themselves into the bargain, should go to see Bronson Howard's "The New Henrietta", at the Repertory Theatre this week...
...lover if the opposition continues. After a fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which the rag-pickers, the small coals dealer, the old clothes man and other peddlars philosophize upon life, the scene changes to Louise's workshop. Julien serenades Louise, and reproaches her for not keeping her bargain. Overcome with remorse, she feigns illness and leaves her work to join her lover. They take up their abode on the heights of Montmartre, where in a brilliantly gay ceremony Louise is crowned queen of the quarter. One day the mother tells Louise that her father is gravely...
...killed her child and went to prison. There the young-old man visited her again. Taking refuge in prayer, she saved her own soul from the Devil. Angels came and rejoiced. Her seducer, young no more, had to go to Hell to pay the Devil's bargain. . . . President and Mrs. Coolidge, and the better part of distinguished Washington, last week enjoyed an enactment of this old tale-the tale of Dr. Faustus, legendary German philosopher, modified from Poet Goethe's tragedy for Composer Gounod's opera and re-modified into English, for the opening night...
...autonomous crafts in the A. F. of L. The I. W. W. was for political action as well as economic. It was to prepare workers for a "Cooperative Commonwealth." Its constitution said: "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." It would make only one bargain with employers?complete surrender of industrial control to the workers. A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks. William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood of Chicago headed the "direct action" party. The so-called "Detroit Wing" was doctrinaire, not determined about political action. After Mr. Haywood's flight from...
...that the prisoners were being held, safe and more or less sound, "as prisoners of war," by one Si Hocine Bou Temga, terrifying tribal chief, at Brahim, high up in the Atlas Mountains. A rescue party set out through torrential rains that were covering the mountains with snow to bargain with the chief for the ransom of the prisoners...