Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are a dozen Forbes-Robertson mouths to feed and Johnston, the eldest, though speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
Imitation. Older members of the family should be enthusiastic about foods and eat what is set before them. A child will imitate them. Younger children will follow the older ones. In the case of an only child, a "party" helps him eat. Many families get together only at meal time, and therefore meal time should be a happy time...
...Churchill began by asking if the Labor Party really wished to follow Prof. John. Maynard Keynes' policy of a managed currency (TIME, Apr. 6, BUSINESS). If so, he taunted, it was possible for His Majesty's Government to cut the value of wages in half by inflation, or for a Labor Government to liquidate all private property by the same means. Inflation, he said, was equivalent to a grocer juggling with his weights and measures...
...newspaper correspondent, writing from Wazzan behind the French lines, thus began his daily despatch on the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...
...successful "specialty industries" of this year has been that devoted to the manufacture and sale of electric refrigerators. Already about 200,000 of these are employed in this country, and the old-fashioned iceman is preparing to follow the cab-driver and sperm whaler into oblivion. Most electric refrigerators still are located in ice-cream plants; not until quite recently have the smaller sizes suited for household use been extensively made or sold. The "ice interests," if such there be, have not yet expressed an opinion upon this new and formidable electrical rival. But the National Electric Light Association estimated...