Word: froth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aboard was King Alfonso XIII, the first King of Spain ever to visit Sweden (TIME, Sept. 24). But what was the tiny speedboat that darted like a water flea after the large ship? Swedes recall that the speedboat drew alongside the Principe Alfonso which, churning the water to soapy froth, stopped. A box was lifted aboard with pulleys. The Principe Alfonso moved on. The impertinent little speedboat shot back toward Stockholm. What did it all mean...
...time his Wood was rather Italian. Playwright Leonard Ide uses the episodic development with flashbacks lately popularized by Novelists Wilder & Bromfield. The second episode, with Ralph J. Locke as a French husband whose adjustment to his wife's infidelity shows skilled amorous economics, is the funniest. Otherwise the froth refuses to bubble...
...every society, however perfected, there will always be at the bottom a noxious sediment and at the top an obnoxious froth...
Waves of reform often stir a froth of laughter as they move forward. Lindsey's reform can be criticized in that it seeks to remove immorality by changing morality; also it can be said that, to most people, the two indispensable adjuncts of matrimony are child bearing and the permanence which springs from it, neither of which the companionate theory emphasizes...
...further add, that there have been no changes whatsoever in the personnel of the "Froth" staff, as a result of action aroused by the mentioned issue. Favorable comments, except in the case of a few, were dominant, and the issue as a whole was considered a great success...