Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...December. They recalled that the U. S. Shipping Board had been created in 1916 as a semi-judicial and regulative body. With our entrance into the War it was supplemented by a sort of get-down-to-business department?the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which was to have the direct administration of the Government Merchant Marine but remain subservient to the parent Board...
With every chug the yacht drew nearer to the squat boulder from whose eminence New England society finds itself able to look down. And when the helmsman at last ran to earth Captain Adolphus' pin, the President and Mrs. Coolidge disembarked " amid many direct descendants of the original Pilgrims,"; who were swelled by unabashed plebeians into "an enthusiastic crowd...
...recorded life of the world for 50 years?wars, dreams, bankruptcies, inventions, good crops and bad crops, dead presidents, murdered archdukes, life in all its scuffle and fire, its dinginess, its mournful, miraculous beauty? passed under his direct scrutiny...
...boycott. The British and Japanese can protest to Peking, and Peking can give orders to Canton -and Canton will go on doing as it pleases. The anti-foreign sentiment in Canton, led by Soviet agitators, gives the British and Japanese the choice of direct action (i.e. using force) or nothing...
...Direction that was so obvious that it seemed at times burlesque blurred the virtues of the work. Fervent overacting also detracted. Ruth Nugent, quiet, direct, sometimes a little wistful amid the sub-Babbitt racket, mattered markedly. Altogether the piece is a doubtful value, and yet the first entertainment of the season for adult consideration...