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Perhaps the only indefinite section of the questionnaire is that in which the voter may conceal various sins from dislike of alcoholic beverages to difficulty in striking a bargain with the local bootleggers under the guise of "Personal Taste". Such a situation is will nigh unavoidable and it is of secondary importance anyway. The major virtue of the ballot lies into its adaptability to various types of colleges, a fact illustrated by the adoption of its essential simplicity by many of the newspapers cooperating in the conducting of polls elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRO AND CON | 3/22/1930 | See Source »

...first two acts Hope Williams is called upon to do little but deliver Mr. Stewart's prolific witticisms, patterned after the jibes which people make at each other when they are slightly tired. She makes them with self-assurance which a more expert player would know how to conceal. They are very good jibes and she is not essential to their success. In the last act, when the scene demands emotional pliancy, you realize that while she has a definite, tart personality, she is not an actress. Robert Williams, as the boy who had once refused her affection, returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...Extension of padlock injunctions to reach property owners who conceal themselves from the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: First-Born | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...crowd clustered about the entrance of the Old Town Coal Company's mine at McAlester, Okla. last week. Out of the mine were carried 60 bodies. Three were unconscious, overcome by afterdamp (carbon monoxide) which had followed a muffled explosion below. The rest, wrapped in burlap to conceal the charred mutilation or gas-choked contortions of their faces, were dead. Of them, 34 were Mexicans, 15 were Negroes. The bodies were exhibited in improvised morgues. Many were unidentifiable. One was identified by a broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: McAlester Blast | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their son's sake. A decade later, when Michael explains the whole history to the boy and informs him that he is a bastard, the boy offers not the slightest objection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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