Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the proposed heavy burden of taxation, Die Rote Fahne (Red Flag), Berlin Communist daily, published a proclamation: " We are the organized power, but we can conquer only when every Communist is filled with sacred, tireless zeal for the revolution...
...automobiles operated. Present difficulties in the oil business are not due to declining consumption-that has steadily increased; it has been the sudden and excessive Western production that has increased stocks and driven down oil prices. Thus far the oil companies have stood the gaff well, considering the burden thrown on them by declining prices and mounting stocks. Very few have required security financing...
...Crooked Square. Herein we find the inaugural attempt of the dramatic year to prove that a young and comely maiden from the country stands no chance on Broadway. At least for two acts such is the burden of the action. Finally the maiden accomplishes the obvious, tricks a gang of society crooks, emerges triumphant on the arm of the affable young hero. Edna Hibbard is the girl; Kenneth McKenna the boy. Both are normally attractive...
Connie is an unfortunate actress. She is 20 and out of a job. The burden of her years has never been so appalling as at the moment when she determines to return forever to an orphan-asylum home in Illinois only to discover that her funds are limited to a half-fare ticket. Accordingly she puts her hair down and her skirts up for the purpose of traveling as an eleven-year-old child. While en route she is adopted by a wealthy Chicago family. Within the household she proves so indispensable that she is finally adopted for life...
...Lights. Practical jokers occasionally burden their friends with mechanical puzzles which admit of no solution. Likewise Bed Lights. It: is a mechanical mystery with hundreds, so it seems, of detectives. The villain pursues her (Marie Prevost) with strange batteries of crimson electricity. There is no solution...