Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Harry Langdon). Frantic farce cannot be estimated in detail. Such a critique would simply be a catalogue of gags. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is such a catalogue. It is one of those pictures in which a man gets into bed with an electric fan and emerges in a storm of feathers. There is a plot about a cross-country race to advertise a shoe store. Mr. Langdon is often funny. The picture is often funny...
...therefore, we cannot see the means of balancing a salary increase by better efficiency through organization, equipment and the suppression of waste time?if you don't want to admit this possibility?the American automobile will replace the French automobile, and it will be the death of the French automobile industry, just as occurred in the case of the farm machinery industry. It will mean unemployment and all its conseconsequences...
Perhaps the shower that fell that afternoon gave Bobby a crick in the neck. Many thought so, though he refused to admit it. Or perhaps it was just one of those inexplicable lapses that the best of players cannot escape. At all events, it was a different Jones that hooked to the rough and traps, sent his approaches wide and missed diminutive putts the next day against 21-year-old Arthur Jamieson Jr., whose work around the greens more than earned him his place in the semifinal. There Jamieson was trimmed by S. F. Simpson, while Jess Sweetser was demonstrating...
...institutions worked out for the simpler commercial conditions of Feudal England. Then it took an act of Parliament to bring courts to recognize an established instrument of commerce. Today a simple legislative act will seldom suffice. Also today the economic structure is so complex and so delicate that we cannot wait for things to work themselves out at a great cost in friction and waste...
...economic ventures presuppose reduction of operations to their lowest terms in point of effort and expense. We cannot tolerate that the legal part of those operations should continue cumbersome, dilatory, uncertain and expensive, while all else is moving swiftly, smoothly and without waste. Business men have a right to call upon us to do for our operations what they have been doing for theirs and we must do our part as they have been doing theirs. We must study the workings of the law, see how it falls short and why, and must apply our inventive powers to find better...