Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domestic allotment plan of price upping;* 9) consideration of producers' strikes. A red-hot Roosevelt man, Unionist Simpson declared: "Low farm prices are the cause of every business failure. But now the rising sun of a new day is here for Agriculture and a Democratic Congress will soon enact legislation to aid the farmer. The farmer won a wonderful victory in the election." Strikers. Closely associated with the National Farmers' Union is Milo Reno's Farmers Holiday Association which sponsored last summer's "farm strike" in Iowa. Striker Reno's threat: "The time has come...
...could have heard the opera through a wooden cylinder contraption attached to his desk, and took a chair in the wings. It was a battered, straight-backed office chair, squeezed into space twice too small for his massive frame, but there he had sat and seen great Enrico Caruso enact the bearded Jew in Halevy's La Juive, the last performance Caruso ever gave. There he sat the night plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell; the night Geraldine Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which...
...Father Confessor, the diction of a bishop, the vanity of a mayor, the power of a governor, and the morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only do what they are told, but do a good bit of real acting besides...
...while customs officials skimmed through their 22 valises in each of which bathrobe, towel, comb and handkerchiefs were packed exactly alike. Then, after sight-seeing Manhattan, the boys set out for Washington where Mrs. Hoover and many another notable heard them sing with expert unity and phrasing, saw them enact neatly and unaffectedly Bastien & Bastienne, a fragile little opera which another Austrian boy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wrote when...
...great many Denverites own their own homes. Few live in apartments. A city ordinance has long forbidden frame construction; the houses are all brick, stone or stucco. Politically, the city runs itself. City and county governments are one. The State legislature cannot enact laws affecting the city of Denver. In view of this independence, Denverites hold it fitting that their Civic Centre is now dominated, not by the oldtime gingerbread Capitol, but by the coronet City & County Building, one of the notable public buildings of the country...