Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true but unfortunately the results of any Chamber of Commerce poll are not indicative of the opinions held by its members individually, for this reason: The local Chamber of Commerce has a membership of over thirteen hundred. Without first obtaining an expression from the individual members, six ballots were cast on the question. The reported result was five to one in favor of the $400,000,000.00 reduction. Was this the opinion of the group or merely the opinion of six men who might have been prejudiced on the question? Assuming that all other Chambers of Commerce throughout the country...
Governor Johnston steadfastly ignored his antagonists but cast anxious glances toward the U. S. Supreme Court. To that tribunal, august in Washington, he was determined to carry Oklahoma's vexatious problems: When is a Governor not a Governor? When can a Legislature legislate...
...just sketched goes very deep. Stalin has the practical responsibility of keeping the state on a balanced budget basis, and he has learned that the co-operation of non-Communist powers is necessary to do this. Stalin controls the machinery of the Communist party. That machine has cast out Trotsky. Unfortunately the matter cannot end there. The machine has cast out of the party men whose prestige with the Russian masses is as great or greater than that of those who remain in. Moreover Trotsky, Zinoviev and their followers are zealous trained and successful revolutionaries. The despotism of the Tsar...
...overemphasized case of hay-fever, blows his wife away. Once gone, she realizes that a statue is not an idol unless it has clay feet; and that men are always either snoring or boring. This cultural advance is accomplished with a great pounding of subtitles, and a cast whose gait is not always, but usually, smooth and rapid. Among its members are Lewis Stone as Menelaos and Ricardo Cortez as a sultry but persuasive Paris. Now We're in the Air. Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton have for some time been in the throes of a series of adventures...
...Valley of the Giants. Through the gloom cast by enormous forests and the fact that the girl he loves is the niece of the man who is cutting down his father's trees, Bryce Cardigan (Milton Sills) staggers, twisting his face with the effort of carrying too much drama for any three cinemas. Doris Kenyon, as the girl he loves, though nice to look at, cannot give him much help...