Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing of shreds and patches" was Secretary of Labor James John Davis's description of the fabric of the U. S. immigration law. In his annual Department report he recommended that Congress...
...Never Rains. What with a Donovan family from Boston who visit a Rogers family in Los Angeles, a subsequent interfamily love affair, and plenty of old jokes about California climate and real estate, the fabric of this play is mere burlap. One shining thread is woven through it in the fat shape of Mrs. Rogers' girlhood suitor who returns wealth, laden with bonbons, declaring: "With me, everything is a message to Garcia...
...financial adviser with a foreign accent. The plot (devised in Europe), evidently an outgrowth of the violent anti-Shylock days, is based on the poverty of the prince and the exuitant power of American money in buying his palace and its traditions. Into this not over-inspired fabric are worked comedy dialogue that is not funny and serious scenes that reek with sentimentality. Not that this last is inappropriate or even undesirable in a musical comedy, but the constant harping upon the theme of European tradition versus American vulgarity arouses one's latent chauvinism. The humorous possibilities of Solly Ward...
...absence from metropolitan diversions and advantages forces the members of the smaller community to develop their own resources. Besides preserving these opportunities, a plan for knitting the small college more closely into the educational fabric by exchanging professors with larger institutions would give the men from the more central institutions a chance to view their own educational problems free from the distracting activities of the higher pressure university...
That joint ownership complicates General Motors aviation activities and folds it into the entire U. S. flying fabric. Because...