Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doesn't play golf, fish, or engage in other outdoor sports. He does play a fair game of bridge and better than average billiards, but he prefers a book, usually one with a historical turn. He is scholarly, keen, well-grounded...
...maintains a drumfire of publicity in behalf of Prohibition. Its representatives appear before Congressional committees for Dry legislation, against Wet proposals. It classifies Congressmen according to their voting record on Prohibition. It favors or opposes presidential appointees on the basis of "public morals." It agitates Sunday closing laws, book and cinema censorship. It supplies debaters to uphold the Dry side of any Prohibition argument. It compiles Sunday School textbooks, temperance leaflets for Epworth Leagues, pledges Negro school children to total abstinence...
...annexation was reported last week from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Objecting to a lecture delivered by Miss Eileen Fields, their teacher, pupils in the Pike Lake School lustily shouted: "Down with the English!" They pasted on the blackboard a print of the U. S. flag, torn from the school's Book of Knowledge. A lad of twelve lowered his head and butted Miss Fields three times in the pit of the stomach...
...lighting is bad; the direction is prosaic; the photography is dull except for some fine shots of the Austrian Tyrol; the actors are obviously actors; the subtitles are verbose. It suffers also the phrases of incontinuity inevitable in a picture made from a long and not particularly compact book. But none of these flaws is important. What was good in the story is alive in the film too?the emotion of something wild beating against influences arranged to tame it. A woman named Mabel Poulton, who used to be a stenographer in London, plays the part of Tessa, the composer...
...Channel, latest book of Ludwig Lewisohn, famed autobiographer, contains a bitter word-portrait of a woman. Mrs. Mary Arnold Lewisohn, the wife from whom Author Lewisohn has been separated since 1925, charged that the portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted...