Word: enrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comedy is her favorite form of drama. "I always feel," she explained, "that in comedy there is no limit to the finish of a performance. Every day I try to enrich my part somehow and in each new city I study my audience to see what jokes will take, and what parts will drag." Apropos of the reputed coldness of Boston audiences Miss Claire had little to say. She believes it is simply up to each actor to win the approval of his audience and that he is entirely responsible for any unresponsiveness on the part of his audience
...later, the Press reiterated its offer, pledged good faith. In addition, the Press promised to enrich the Tabernacle Church by $1,000 to "compensate for the time he (the Pastor) devotes to the improvement of ' newspaper standards...
...effort, and certainly more of vigilance than this universal common sense. We want, my friends, to offer to the American people, first of all, common justice. (Applause). We want it in our legislation, and we declare that a tariff law which takes from one man in order to enrich another, which imposes upon the people of this country an indirect burden in the form of revenue derived by the Government is, in its nature, inherently unjust and must be modified. (Applause...
...terrible tangle and the country owes more money than it can pay off in a donkey's age. Moreover, there is not enough money in Rumania to buy 60% of the stock of foreign concerns in Rumania. Consequently, under such conditions, the Government is accused of trying to enrich Rumania at the expense of foreigners without paying a cent in return...
...degeneration. If short cuts are to be made in order that lack wits may appear intelligent, someone with the necessary knowledge must perform the informedary steps. And since this is so, those who view with alarm may effect that it should not be long before the workers refuse to enrich the puppets any further, and proceed to assert their intellects in their own right...