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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that upon which the U. S. Immigration Act went into force. In the U. S. Embassy Compound in Tokyo, the Stars and Stripes flew proudly from a tall mast. A Japanese, watched by an unsuspecting Tokyo "bobbie," hauled the flag down, cut it from the halyards with a razor, crumpled it up, fled. The "bobbie" suddenly came to, realized the gravity of the man's action, made off after him -but in vain; his quarry escaped...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?A delightful compound of reality and fantasy, in which Freud is actually turned to dramatic use without becoming a clinical bore...
...pedestrians. Professor Henderson's idea was a purely mechanical method of dissipating the fumes in open air. Now, however, comes Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, inventor of the Klaxon auto horn, acoustic devices for the deaf, etc., with a short-cut to the heart of the problem-a chemical compound, which, introduced into the gasoline, eliminates most of the monoxide from the exhaust fumes, as well as the bothersome carbon deposits in the cylinders. The nature of the compound was not revealed, but the formula will be patented. When tested in the Pittsburgh Experiment Station of the U. S. Bureau...
That the Labor Party is in power by grace of the Liberal Party is by now a truism. That the Liberal Party is showing signs of compound fracture became evident during the past week. This a priori reasoning led British political critics to forecast another general election within four months...
...Lady Killer. While the murder of a young lawyer is supposed to be perpetrated in this comedy, the real victim is the spectator. The Lady Killer is a preposterous compound of claptrap and labored humor, which seems to have been written solely with an eye to the cinema rights...