Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third annual session of four weeks. President Harry A. Garfield of Williams College opened the Institute. As he pointed out, it is an educational institution, whose members come representing neither governments nor institutions, but as individuals. They have no unifying faith or program; they have no power to enact laws; they do not try to record their opinions by votes or resolutions. They come to hear and take part in discussions of international affairs. For this purpose " round tables " are held where discussion is carried on under leaders in the mornings. There are, besides, regular lectures later...
...lawyers-in-government. "The lawyers enact the laws, interpret the laws and enforce the laws. The Government is a lawyer-government, and we are a lawyer-ridden country...
...back to Long Island he stopped over in Washington and left an idea in the political pool. Congress, he suggests, should enact a law providing for national referendum on big issues. The law would direct the Secretary of State to request all Governors to put on the official ballots in national elections any question upon which Congress may wish to obtain the opinion of the electorate...
Among the specialty numbers will be one in which four members of the female chorus will dance in hoop-skirts and the accompanying dress of the nineteenth century, and a second where another quartet will enact a burlesque on Joseph,, Alger '22 and F. B. Taussig '22 will present a specialty number, a take off on the Duncan sisters...
...excuse for a plot is conceived in a novel manner. In a sort of prologue, Professor Fakir introduces his class of six budding playwrights, who announce in turn the subject of their first dramatic efforts. The scenes that follow offer the amateur composers an opportunity to enact their creations, and thus we have six miniature playlets within the play, interspersed at varying intervals with the inevitable dance and song divertissements which are essential to all true musical reviews. The first incident,--"The Hat Bazaar,"--immediately puts the spectators in good humor, a humor which is constantly enhanced as the show...