Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is material for a good drama or a good comedy. Unfortunately, the Hungarian Sil-Vara who penned the piece, has taken his stand directly between these possibilities. He has chosen to deal lightly with the subjects, tossing epigrams hither and yon every once in a while to keep us amused. But he has not done it as well as it has been done many times before. He has also chosen to have his characters release certain ponderous sayings from time to time, to keep the play out of the pure comedy class. These dicta are sound but not better...
...post of the late William A. Oldfield of Arkansas as their "whip" (assistant floor-leader), the House Democrats appointed Representative John C. Box, a five-termer from Texas. The Box fame: immigration matters. A Box bill now pending is to put Western Hemisphere nations on the quota basis, to keep Mexicans out of Texas (see The Cabinet, "Labor Report...
...Constitution and reapportion popular representation to fit the changes of U. S. population since 1910, many a State has more Representatives than it is proportionately entitled to and many another has less. Representative Fenn of Connecticut has long and often proposed a bill which, in its present form, would keep the House membership at 435 and reapportion the seats on the basis of the 1930 census, when taken. Estimates are that California would benefit most, gaining six seats. Next would be Michigan, gaining four seats; then Ohio, 3; New Jersey & Texas, 2; Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma & Washington...
...through an emergency measure so contrived that one year hence the beak-nosed Monsignor might himself assume the Presidency with semi-dictatorial powers. Still it was significant that Chancellor Seipel had said, impatiently lecturing strike leaders: "What Austria needs is a strong President to keep her house in order!" To many Socialists the inference seemed inescapable. Seipel, already strong, wanted to be stronger, strongest...
Three months ago in Paris Miss Del Rio asked her husband if she could come and see him; after that they wrote to each other, the actress finally-"Keep up your courage, darling. I don't forget you in my heart. You must get well. I love you, I love you."-a message (it was the one the sick man did not live to read) suggesting once more the odd fact that all emotions of a certain sort, whether real or assumed, can be expressed only in the language of subtitles...