Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunny. The much heralded and horribly expensive show to celebrate Marilyn Miller's return from classic comedy (Peter Pan) has finally appeared and made for itself a noble name. It is unquestionably the most lavish musical comedy ever assembled and seems to suffer only through an excess of talent. By the middle of the second act you actually become a little weary of seeing celebrities running on and off with brief lines and a song here and there. The show lacks unity and a focal interest. As a five-dollar vaudeville show, it is the very best. Miss Miller plays...
...opportunity to tell his constituents and all visitors to New York, including the Queen of the Belgians and the International Police Conference, that he has preserved the five cent fare in New York travel, thus keeping from the Wall Street barons upwards of $3,000,000,000,000 excess profits. This issue was captured by Senator Walker, who pointed out that the Mayor of New York is powerless either to raise or lower the fare...
...should not be inconsolable if Congress should decree euthanasia for the commission. The writer's demonstrated earning power is in excess of his present official salary. It has come about that the flexible tariff, like one's elbow, appears to flex but one way and that way is upward. Consequently, the flexible tariff is a subject that provokes the flexible laughter of its critics. Why this lopsided situation? . . . The Tariff Commission is like a dentist's office, to which people rush only when they have a pain or an ache...
...That the executive order whereby President Harding gave Secretary Fall control over the Naval oil reserves was "ineffectual and in excess of the executive power of the President...
...STEAMER BOOK-Compiled by Edwin Valentine Mitchell-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A snack of Stevenson, a morsel of Melville, a tidbit of Dibdin, a fact or two about navigation and (for convalescence) one or two very short stories by Hawthorne, Daudet and compeers. In meagre fashion and with no lavish excess of ingenuity in arrangement, all tastes are catered to. There is a scientifico-detective story. There are lines from Lord Tennyson...