Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indicted because of its alleged immortality. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Through no will of his own, a movie-struck youth becomes a film comedian. The process is attended by no little disillusionment. _ RAIN-A spirited attack on the big stick missionary. Jeanne Eagel is the persecuted, somewhat unevenly virtuous instrument of the Rev. Davison's eventual fall. Realistic rain falls intermittently. SEVENTH HEAVEN-There is a tremendous moment when Helen Menken, as the submissive sister of an absinthe-soaked shrew, turns on her with a courage restored by love, and beats her with her own, whip. LOYALTIES - John Galsworthy...
...specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument, whereby stations can tell the point of the wave's origin to a fraction of a second...
...child is stillborn. No link remains between himself and his wife, who betakes herself to rather frenzied merriment with the idlers whom he hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls him a traitor and leaves him in disgust. The disgust is largely mutual. Bertram goes on a tour through Europe-representing a liberal weekly-and the plot stands still for a good many pages of observation. Further developments are an attack of typhus for Bertram...
...Teach every child to draw, model, sing, or play a musical instrument, and read music...
...band also wishes to use several clarinets, and any men who play this instrument and wish to join the band...