Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gompers' ideals. " I can explain my position," he has said, " by a story. You see a boy whistling mightily as he approaches a yellow dog. He kicks the dog into the gutter and goes on whistling loudly. Then he comes to a bulldog. He looks at him but he doesn't touch him." Unorganized labor is the yellow dog; organized labor the bulldog...
Potash and Perlmutter. Abe and Mawruss-in anything that might be called the silent drama? Abe and Mawruss-toned down to the flat black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash...
...woods. They find each other sympathetic. Virginia's family and the other white people of the town misunderstand and set out to lynch Cloud. Virginia might have saved Cloud if she had tried, but she feels too indifferent-nothing seems to matter much any more-so she doesn't, and he is lynched. The form and style of the book should prove of great interest to students of the most recent literary tendencies. THE MYSTERY ROAD-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little Brown ($2.00). Monte Carlo-mysterious ladies of the highest rank who refuse to reveal their identities-a little...
...told him: "I want the U. S. to get into the League [of Nations] just as much as you do . . . I am opposed to the Wilson League . . . but the League can be changed . . ." "But in your own Party what will Senator Blank say?"asked Professor Fisher "Oh! Senator Blank doesn't care. I know him better than you do. When he takes his extreme stand he is doing so for political effect" Warren T. McCray is known as a brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist) and a raiser of prize Hereford cattle.* Since 1921 he has been Governor...
Lady Eleanor Smith, 19-year-old daughter of Lord Birkenhead, now in the U. S.: " Said I, describing the Prince of Wales: ' He works so hard he doesn't have a lot of time for pleasure and, really, he is nice. I mean, not a bit conceited over the the idea that lots of girls like...