Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irregular medical schools, such as schools of chiropractic, naturopathy, optometry, physical therapy, naprapathy, sagliftology, electronic medicine, enerology, divine metaphysics, are falling before onslaughts from the bureau of legal medicine and legislation. The 171 such institutions of 1920 had been reduced...
...Irregular Republicans favor retaining the estate tax. Secretary Mellon and the Regulars want it repealed. The Irregulars dislike the automobile and admission taxes, which the Regulars oppose repealing. The Irregulars view askance reductions of taxes on corporate incomes and on individual incomes in the "intermediate...
...Irregular Republicans thus became the fulcrum of another Senate seesaw, and the tax fight changed from a question of total reduction to several questions, on what reductions shall be made...
...scene was less hectic. A scattering of smart people sat in boxes or strolled about; other people, haggard, dirty, inarticulate, led their dogs about on leashes. The centre of the large oval arena had been squared off, floored with rough green carpet, spotted here and there with dark, irregular circles. Into this place, people brought their dogs to be examined by the judges. It was for the judges, prodding the sparse flesh upon a terrier's bones or stroking the pursed silky ear of a beagle, to decide how each dog or bitch, rated upon arbitrary points such...
...Acting. Earle Larimore, Glenn Anders and Tom Powers played husband, lover, friend, all acceptably. To Mr. Powers went the most irregular characterization and he played it with a curiously electric irregularity. Lynn Fontanne drew the desperately difficult duty of portraying Nina. Her performance, like the whole of the event, lacked perfection but came close to majesty in many a passage...