Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least important item in favor of "Sweetheart Time" is the dancing of the entire cast, principals and chorus. The chorus, far more pulchritudinous than the average, is one of the all-star variety, the individuals of which are always surprising us by stepping to the fore to do tricks, and very good tricks they...
...inevitable connection between emotion and action or gesture between gesture and emotion: a person cannot feel an emotion without making the appropriate gesture, and he cannot make the gesture without feeling the emotion. This is to be sure almost the same as saying that the argument was decided in favor of an actor's "feeling his part" before it was begun: he cannot help putting himself into the mood: it is inevitable that he be in the mood, feel the emotion, if he goes through the appropriate gestures...
...present invitation if it had not been that this invitation was issued by the League of Nations. To many members of Congress the name of the League of Nations is still anathema?to Borah, to Hiram W. Johnson, to Moses?but in general the "irreconcilables" none the less favor disarmament...
...Economic Setting. The curious thing in the farmer's situation is that he is suffering when the general trend of the economic situation is all working in his favor. Ever since 1898 the consumption of food products in the U. S. has been increasing much more rapidly than the production of foodstuffs. Only last week the Department of Agriculture made public a study confirming this fact. Of sugar, fruits, nuts and vegetables we import more than we export. We still export more grain, grain products, and animal products than we import, but the net exportation of animal products has fallen...
...order to get favor with white people, he found one had merely to fight. Accordingly, when the War was over, he started to earn his living in the prize-ring. His naive but effective antics made him a good drawing card, and before long he found himself standing under enormous arc lights in the Velodrome Buffalo in Paris while 50,-000 people shrieked and Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," world's light-heavyweight champion, twisted helplessly at his feet...