Word: exits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Sanders of Indiana who retires (voluntarily) from Congress in March, and is then to become Secretary to the President, began to spend a few hours a day at the White House to tide over the period between Mr. Slemp's exit and his own official entrance...
Last summer each political party included an equivocal plank in its platform, and one presidential candidate devoted much breath and labor in explaining this plan of exit from the situation. The important factor in the decision is public indifference. That a principal resource of the South, providing heat, light, and factory power, is to be chiefly freed from public control and left within the decision of private interests, seems a step of no importance...
...only near the final curtain, but throughout the play Mr. Brown displays an irritating amount of slovenliness in his writing. Thus two of the six characters appear in the early stages of the play for insignificant reasons, and than exit into obscurity--loose ends unconnected with the remainder of the plot. Rosner, for example, has apparently no better excuse for being in the play than to provide the hero with the indispensable automatic. The gun, together with an unemptied waste basket, remains conspicuously placed in the office of a busy business man for twenty four hours; of course nobody disturbs...
...expiring. But that the King's prestige has in any way suffered is an illusion which has been created by revolutionary propagandists on foreign soil. It is significant enough that Alfonso has told Primo that the Dictatorship must go and that Primo is preparing all too slowly for his exit. The monarch says "Go!" The master goes; he is not strong enough to fight the Monarchy. Who is the real master? Evidently, Alfonso...
...forced to grope their way in the dark from the top floor of the building only to find the door locked. After much prying and pushing the door still remained firm and as the janitor was not to be found the group had to use a window as an exit...