Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Allbert Frankan has sold the motion picture rights of Gerald Cranstion's Lady" to the Fox film company, and the hero of modern big business ; will in due time be seen on the silver screen. It seems likely that the directions will be less explicit, in certain spots that the author, but the air-plane scene in which a lady pursues her (may be) lover into the fastnesses of a Vickers-Vimy cross-Channel plane when he tries, literally, to fly from her wiles, ought go well in the picture. They run into a terrible storm...
...Paris: "President Wilson never made any secret compact with anybody about anything at the Paris Peace Conference. . . . I don't know just what Mr. Lloyd George refers to. Let him produce the documents, if he believes there was a 'secret compact.' But I do not hesitate to make explicit denial, because I know Mr. Wilson never was a party to and never had any secret compacts whatever over there...
President Coolidge's message to the new Congress contained an allusion to the proposed Department which is not altogether explicit as to the point just raised. It is interesting, however, as indicating how important the main issue has become, and it is specific enough in regard to the availability of Federal funds-funds being always the first and last question in education. Said the President: "Having in mind that education is peculiarly a local problem and that it should always be pursued with the largest freedom of choice by students and parents, nevertheless the Federal Government might well give...
American Literature, writes this very modern Englishman, like the Russian has come to a real verge. "The furthest frenzies of the French modernism or futurism have not reached the pitch of extreme consciousness that Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman reached." These Americans "refuse everything explicit and always put up a sort of double meaning. They revel in subterfuge. They prefer their truth safely swaddled in an ark of bulrushes, and deposited among the reeds until some friendly Egyptian princess comes to rescue the babe." Needless to say, Mr. Lawrence will play the kind-hearted daughter of Pharach to rescue the infant...
With the exception of a variety of indictments, hearings, and fines in the case of The God of Vengeance (an explicit display of sexual misdirection), the Manhattan municipal authorities are dormant. Meanwhile the managers' pockets bulge increasingly with purple proceeds...