Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Polite, Brewer Busch seldom foams over in public against the law which outlawed his ancestral business. But last week he said: "After eight years of miserable Prohibition failure, with its paralyzing corruption, its demoralization of youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League...
Farm Relief was given more time than any other subject. The orator began with analysis and expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief...
Peace: "I think I may say that I have witnessed as much of the horror and suffering of war as any other American. From it I have derived a deep passion for peace. . . ." Will cooperate with the League in science, etc. ". . . But we must and shall maintain our naval defense...
Died. Arthur J. Lamb, oldtime writer ("Asleep in the Deep," "The Naughty Little Bird on Nellie's Hat," etc.); of an embolism; in Providence...
Loves of an Actress is a tragedy, with Pola Negri reclining on a soft couch most of the time. She loves them all-bankers, counts, newspaper owners-but, deep down, she is disgusted with men. Then along comes a lean-hipped young diplomat (Nils Asther) and the Lady of the Couch is stricken with love-at-first-sight. "What does it matter?" she cries, "A man-a woman-before them the highway of life." But, alas for the highway, a rejected count threatens to reveal her past and ruin the young diplomat's career. Death comes to the couch...