Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girl from Havana" is mildly amusing though on the whole rather badly and sloppily done. Its theme is also a well known one to regular movie goers, dealing as it does with several phases of the underworld. It is far from subtle but some of the dialogue by its very obviousness cannot fail to raise a laugh from the most cynical observer. The transposed wild west finish of the picture is crude in the extreme and reminiscent of the early days of the motion picture industry
...novel topic vital to U. S. citizens: "Freedom of the Seas." If there should be another War would the British Navy again wield the weapon of Blockade? Weaseling well, he answered: "You have signed a pact of peace. And when I say you I mean Canada. . . . We have done the same, France has done the same, Italy has done the same and the United States has done the same! ... If there is to be no war there is to be no blockade. What is the use of bothering ourselves and wasting our time considering problems that will arise...
Before the commencement of the exhibition, the Dramatic Club is arranging for a special speaker, who will outline the plan, and tell something of the way is which it is being done...
...History, when asked to comment on the consolidation of the states of Europe as proposed by Premier Briand. "The plan may have a beautiful ideal, but it seems to me to be utterly impracticable. There are too many obstructions that must be ironed out before anything can be done...
...opposing races, for such a plan to be carried out, at least at the present time. Each state is a single unit, highly centralized, composite; and there must be a tremendous change before it is possible to imagine a political union of nations, beyond what has so far been done in the formation of the League of Nations. And the organization is little more than a group gathered together with the purpose of preventing war, and settling disputes...