Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flaming Barriers seems a notable attempt at leisurely comedy which misses fire. It misses fire until the last few hundred feet, when a forest conflagration banishes the leisurely plot and burns the whole thing in a blaze of melodrama. The fire enables Jacqueline Logan and Antonio Moreno to prove her father's fire-fighting apparatus the most efficient in the world. Since everyone but the villain had been trying to prove this throughout the picture, it was the normal solution. The earlier stages of the action, dealing with life in a Main Street Manufacturing Company, are only mildly arousing. Miss...
President Robert W. de Forest presented the annual report of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, showing an attendance, 1,036,703, the greatest on record, and a deficit...
...land of liberty, particularly in Phildelphia, where they have to call out the Marine Corps to make the people conform to laws they evidently do not like." The Chamber of Deputies voted an appropriation of 15,000,000 francs for the relief of sufferers from "floods, tidal waves, avalanches, forest fires and other calamities." Communists in Paris decided to hold a Ruhr protest meeting. They secured the Syndicalist Hall. The Syndicalists waited until the Communists (now their hated enemies) arrived and then began to break up the meeting. When Marcel Cachin mounted the platform, a free fight broke out. Chairs...
...rarely if ever mentioned. And yet, as the Department of Agriculture recently pointed out, during the fiscal year our importations of agricultural products for the first time in history exceeded sales of our agricultural products abroad. During the year ending June 30, 1923, our imports in this class (including forest products) were valued at $2,315,000,000 or $780,000,000 more than in the year pre ceding; while our agricultural exports amounted in 1922-23 to only $1,927,000,000, which was $82,000,000 less than in 1921-22. Thus, whereas in agricultural products...
...certainly functioning while we are idling away the time. Altogether, 42 nominations go to Virginia for places that have wonderfully beautiful names, like Clover and Forest Depot and Richland and Ridgeway and Rural Retreat, all of which get Postmasters...