Word: even
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However pleasing to the Pope was news of this celebration, last week he accomplished something that must have been even more gratifying to him. Seizing the most propitious moment possible, he completely healed the breach between Czechoslovakia and the Catholic Church...
Next day the mighty U. S. press was busy reminding the public that other famed statesmen-fiddlers are Nicholas Longworth and Charles Gates Dawes; some others even going so far as to mention Benito Mussolini...
With the possible exception of that crafty cleric, bald, eagle-beaked ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel, Policeman Schober, conservative but officially aligned with no political party, is the strongest figure in present day Austria. Without even waiting for any official announcement of policy from the new Chancellor, without even learning who was to compose his new cabinet, editors of all political faiths sprang to the conclusion that with good Policeman Schober in command everything would be all right...
Confronted by these statements, Crier Woollcott did not seem to care that reputation was at stake. Petulantly he rasped : "It happened. I should not have told the story, except that I think anyone who shoots at birds, even though he's a general, ought to be told...
Hard to Get (First National). Although this mild anecdote about a mannequin who tries to see life as her customers see it has been told before in various forms, it has been directed lightly enough to avoid being offensive and even at times to be funny. When a handsome fellow in a long shiny car picks up Dorothy Mackaill she tells him she lives on Fifth Avenue and gives him the number of a house that as inevitably happens in these cases turns out to be his own. Hard to Get does not rise to any heights of originality...