Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opposition to any attempt to alter the Volstead Act for a greater alcoholic content in non-intoxicating beverages...
...nine million taxi-drivers in the widely known metropolis) stayed silent. Accordingly Mabel Normand opened in The Extra Girl. It turned out to be a feminine edition of Merton and guaranteed harmless. The scandal-starved hundreds can gaze, gape and grin at Miss Normand to their hearts' content and bring their children. For those who align themselves with this department in Considering screen Mabel an exceptionally comic personality, the picture will appeal...
...according to the Tribune, he has cut himself off from his family, has renounced books and ideas, is content with a clerical job in Manhattan for which he is paid $23 a week. When the news of his father's death reached him recently, he was not interested, refused to attend the funeral...
Many men, however, have not been content with a simple Yes or No. Some exceedingly interesting qualifications have been attached to the ballots, ranging from absolute disagreement with the Plan to refusal to vote for it because it was "an unpalatable does of casuistry." One man believed that the Plan was a scheme to get the American public to approve unwillingly of a form of world association which it has already repudiated in the strongest possible language" namely, the League of Nations. Another approved of the substance, but protested against the selection of a plan which contained nothing original...
...delightful mingling of seriousness and humor with which they are treated. Mr. Batchelder is the true antiquarian. He delights in pursuing a word, a custom or a tradition to its origin and tracing its history as far as he can follow it. But, having done this he is not content to present the bare result in tabular form; he brings his scattered facts into relation with larger ideas and shows their bearing upon the movement of important institutions...