Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churchill bides his time, but Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, a fiery Labor M. P. related to Wedgwood China and a Constitutional authority of repute, has already drafted a motion in effect telling the King to marry whom he likes and defy Baldwin...
...three-day visit attracting 20,000 listeners. In St. Louis the Globe-Democrat issued daily supplements detailing Mission activities and one young man declared that the team's appearance had dissuaded him from suicide. Everywhere Missionary Jones was the headline speaker, driving home repeatedly his message to the effect that: "Religion is at the judgment bar. America must make her choice among Fascism, Communism, or the Kingdom of God on earth...
Skin tests failed to reveal any specific allergy. A Washington doctor cut out the adolescent's tonsils, with no effect on the sneezing. Other specialists could find nothing unusual in her lungs or nervous system...
...total effect of "Life's a Villain" is somewhat bewildering. The title, the first sight of the sophisticated crowd which serves as a background for the main story, the first blares of commonness from nouvelles-riches Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Turner; all lead one to expect social commentary rather than sentiment, for surely these people are not here just to be amusing. But then you do get the sentiment. And it's often quite nice. One only wishes that he did not get that disturbing feeling of something not quite said...
...cause of all this is not so funny as its effect, however, for when he had a plate for pennies they failed to multiply as the papers disappeared. In fact they often disappeared themselves at a rate which would fill a carpet sweeper with envy...