Word: contently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Appointee McNeill is virtually unknown; but Britons are content that he should represent the Crown because of his long and faithful service to the Government of India. From 1888 to 1912 he held various posts in the administration of Bombay, later being charged with educative work to combat the plague throughout India. His brother, Irish Free State Minister of Education John McNeill, reputedly secured his appointment, four years ago, as first High Commissioner of the Irish Free State at London...
...cannot but regret that the producers were not content with this much. To weave an elaborate plot and a large measure of what passes for "heart interest" into a spectacular subject of this sort does not help the picture, but destroys its balance. "Wings" is a picture that is well worth seeing, but one is sorry that the excellent material of it is highly diluted...
Swiftly, now, the elastic League machinery resumes its normal course. The Commission votes to defer additional debate on the Soviet proposal until it meets again, in March. Litvinov has to be content with this, and seems not unhappy amid such pleasant surroundings. He is receiving scores of congratulatory messages. One is from Mrs. Henry Villard,* Chairman of the Manhattan Women's Peace Society. Cables she: "Thrilled by Russia's forward step toward world peace, the only one possible if we would really have true peace between nations...
...York Graphic in its best moments is perhaps more amusing than Mr. Enwright's contribution to journalism. But after all there is only one Bernarr McFadden and those who pattern their wares on his must be content with minor laurels. The Telegram certainly will have its public, for even a constant perusal of the Advertiser occasionally fails to appease the public's taste for the elemental, the passionate primitive. Mr. Enwright is to be complimented on the success with which he has composed and executed his sheet without falling back on the usual resources of the journalist, news...
...stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity. Opera of any appreciable allegorical content are usually picked up and laid aside at random. Not so with Juggler's Kiss. It is to be read at one sitting. For Mr. Komroff is above all things a gorgeous storyteller. This power has enabled him to maintain a fascinating tempo in Juggler's Kiss, even at its allegoriest...