Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact the ritual of farm relief hear- ings became so stupid that Oklahoma's Senator Thomas proposed a means of enlivening them. He would call tycoons of industry and finance?Henry Ford, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab, Paul Moritz Warburg, Owen D. Young, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Andrew William Mellon?and have them say what was wrong with the farmer...
...historic but not cordial. Upon his tall soberly garbed figure descended all the old righteous rage of the East against the Latter-day Saints. Christian pastors bellowed for his expulsion from the Senate. The ancient horrors of polygamy were dragged out and paraded before the world?despite the fact that polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil. His ascent to power...
...world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore himself. What is at present the talkies' outstanding attraction?the fact that a picture can talk? must, after its novelty has disappeared, become their outstanding limitation?the fact that it is only a picture that is talking. The greatest menace to the contemporary theatre would appear to be, not good talkies, but bad plays...
...engined and speeded Columbus should be put in service. Shares of the N. G. L. were placed on the U. S. market last November by Direktor Stimming personally at $69. Dividends of $3.42 per share were paid last week but this showing was due in part to the fact that U. S. Treasury had recently paid to the N. G. L. $2,000,000 in cash compensation for piers at Manhattan seized during the War. A positive announcement from the office of Direktor Stimming, last week, assured that the Europa will be completed for service in 1930. The Bremen...
...Lake Falls on a jerkwater train, half box cars. They gleaned little enough, wrote much. In a letter to TIME not for publication Mrs. Christie presently said, among other things, that she has given no personal interviews, ex cept some long ago on economic subjects. That fact did not stop the feature writers, but they went a little easy, because Mr. Christie is a country editor, one of the craft...