Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face of such trying conditions the company has done remarkably well. Miss Warren plays the role of the wife, the psychological changes of whom constitute the dramatic action, with a great deal of energy. In fact, she is some-times so eager that she gets ahead of the play and on one occasion is insulted before the words are uttered. Her breathlessness ruins many of her effects, but her vitality should win the favour of everyone. Mr. Roberts plays the absurdly romantic husband and self-centered statue of respectability even more ably. His part, however, is much simpler; he undergoes...
...industrial losses were some seven millions, bringing the total loss to thirty millions in a state with only 400,000 population. To rehabilitate industry, credit was the important thing, said Secretary Hoover. Let New England extend credit to Vermont, letting character supplement collateral. What Mississippi Valley bankers had done, surely the New England bankers could...
...suit brought by the Mexican Petroleum Co. (a subsidiary of the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co., controlled by the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana) to restrain the Mexican Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor from canceling the oil drilling permits of the company (which the ministry had already done), the Supreme Court of Mexico passed judgment in favor of the U. S. concern...
...Installment credit is beginning to do for the consumer what the gradual development of the commercial banking system has done for the producer. If the credit is restricted to the proper commodities, under proper management, it will gradually throw off its abuses and will stand forth as one of the most signal contributions of the twentieth century to the potential creation of national wealth and national welfare...
...announced and thereupon had followed much shaking of heads. Was not Norma 96 years old, relic of another age when song had been all-important and there were such phenomena as singers? Was not Norma the most exacting role ever set before a prima donna and had anyone ever done it justice since Lilli Lehmann last sang it at the Metropolitan...