Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only one drawback-its unpardonable smell- and the fact that that smell transferred itself to anyone who ate the fruit. Lord Revoir ate of the popomack. What happened to him then is the theme of this extraordinary allegorical play by a young British poet. Two of the scenes exist only in the minds of some of the dramatis personae. A brilliant, interesting, witty experiment. THE DESERT HEALER-E. M. Hull -Small Maynard ($2.00). Sir Gervas Carew was a misogynist. His wife had run off with another, so he straightway went to the Sahara and became a sheik-El Hakim...
...body, the Council of State. This is comprised of the members of the Cabinet and the two officers above named. Osmena was elected Vice President of this body. It has no legal standing. Nevertheless, it took over the duties of the Cabinet, which for practical purposes ceased to exist, and Osmena was practically Prime Minister...
...music publishing enterprises of both Austria and Germany have been ruined, and the most famous houses have been barely able to exist. A queer and ironical turn of luck enters here. The Teutonic publisher of cultural works in general has long been noted for his courage and self-abnegation. The story of the publisher and Einstein is characteristic. Einstein brought his manuscript, saying that there were a dozen men in the entire world who would be able to understand it. The publisher replied meditatively that he would print the work. The music houses constantly got out editions of composers...
Premier Benito Mussolini is not a prohibitionist. But he thinks that there exist in Italy " alcoholic abuses," and he is determined to lessen the number of wine shops. Accordingly, he has ordered the enforcement of an old law of licenses which allows only one for every 2,000 people...
...grading system in the cotton business. The same standards now exist the world over...