Word: even
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather conditions in Canada and improved world demand brightened the outlook. The Chicago wheat pit reflected these conditions. Prices, on the rise for the last month, went higher. July deliveries touched $1.29 per bushel, a 35 cent advance since the disastrous drop of May. Oldtime traders looked for even better prices, gossiped about $2 wheat...
Skirts. No knees, even for sportswear, which drops two inches. Four to six added inches for afternoon, twelve to 15 for evening, bringing many frocks in slanting fashion to the floor, adding trains...
...Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters. "Put on a pair of false whiskers so you won't be bothered," he wrote. "I am thinking of a series of disguises for myself so that I can go to picture galleries and look . . . and think. . . ." Impressionism permanently affected him. His subjects...
...with water to a flooded town. There is no dialog but plenty of noise-a monotonous scraping sound no more like the big-bellied voice of a real train than the imitation puffing that any trap-drummer can produce with a pair of wire brushes. Chaney acts well; he even walks in the stiff-shoulder fashion of old trainmen. At times he gets into the unreal story the dramatic flavor of its background. Best shot: Chaney feeling the driving-pinions, worn smooth by thousands of miles on the road, of his old engine dismantled in the shops. Charming Sinners (Paramount...
...question of continuing Stanley Baldwin's "safeguarding of industry" tariff, the Labor government received the surprising majority of 120 votes, more than even the most optimistic Laborites expected. London business circles felt sure that the duties on motor cars, pianos, machinery?all typical U. S. exports?will be canceled at the passing of next year's budget...