Word: dose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Benito Mussolini decreed for all Italy a fresh dose of discipline. Every Italian salary and wage will be cut, announced the Dictator, and so will every Italian price. By submitting to this discipline Italians will obtain (without going off the gold standard) the same competitive advantage in foreign trade that U. S. citizens achieved by debasing their dollar. In II Duce's view inflation or debasement is a slick way of cutting wages and prices under the pretense of raising them. For an undisciplined nation such slickery may be the only...
...perhaps significant that Mussolini has chosen this method of stimulating his export trade. Why did he not choose a mild dose of inflation instead? Was the decision a purely rational one, or did he have at heart the good of the bond-holding capitalist class? For those who believe strongly in two popular tenets, one, that inflation is by nature uncontrollable, and two, that Mussolini is a power unto himself, the second question will appear wholly gratuitous. But to the remaining minority the query will have its point. Even though the wage cutting scheme be inferior to the price-raising...
...play has one set and three characters, all women. Besides Miss Nazimova, they include Dr. Monica's lady architect roommate (Gale Sondergaard) and a pregnant servant girl (Beatrice de Neergaard) whom Miss Nazimova takes in. Nazimova has been giving her husband a dose of solitude to "strengthen" him, meanwhile undergoing an operation to enable her to have a child by him. Demoralized by the operation, she is further demoralized to learn that the father of the servant girl's unborn child is her philandering husband. Good study of lower middle-class psychology is the scene in which...
...Jones" and his untimely end, "Walls of Gold" is recommended as a breather, because everything turns out rosy in the end. Ralph Morgan plays the part of the wrong husband and does a masterful job of being incredulously fiendish. A serious spectator might contemplate justified murder as the only dose of medicine to cure his high-handed treatment of the fair Sally...
...demand that the theatres and the distilleries should be expunged as unholy in the rural theology. It gives them vinous experience not in barns but on lounges, and frees them from the enchantment of the pulp presses. Though its dogma and its excesses may be appalling enough, a liberal dose of Legion conventions at the right time would have saved us from the Mann Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. POLLUX...