Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest of self-sacrifice with her former husband's new wife. The plot is full of "audience value," i. e., emotional sequences rising out of each other so rapidly as to eliminate the narration necessary in ordinary stories. Through its unrealities, Gloria Swanson is handsome, restrained, adroit, in good voice. Best shot:?Swanson saying goodbye to her little...
...have seen a good many explanations," said the Vice-Chamberlain jovially, "as to why we took my vacation on a tanker instead of a liner. They were all of them wrong. The truth is very simple. I knew in an oil tanker we would find peace and quiet and good sailing conditions...
...deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the sleeping accommodations as good as on any liner...
...Minister decided to slip off for a few days to "Chequers," country residence of British prime ministers. Rumor was that a rough sea passage on the little liner Duchess of York had kept him from writing his speech. His own sturdy story was: "We had what I call a good Englishman's passage. There were four rough days, but we arrived. I did not miss a single meal...
Crowds of laboring men and poorly dressed women cried "Good old Mac!" as the tall Laborite and Daughter Ishbel passed through the Customs shed in grimy Liverpool. There were more cheers at London's grimier Euston station. But there was no such spontaneous, frenzied welcome from all classes as crippled Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden received when he brought home his piece of "Reparations Sponge Cake" from The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. MacDonald was not "chaired" (carried in British triumph shoulder high) as was Mr. Snowden. In his empty hands he brought only Peace...