Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star Spangled Banner" is not the national anthem of the U. S. The U. S. has no national anthem, officially. In an effort to induce Congress to adopt Francis Scott Key's poem as the national anthem, representatives of many a patriotic and military organization flocked before the House Judiciary Committee last week to urge enactment of a bill for that purpose. The bill's author: Maryland's Representative John Charles Linthicum from the district containing Fort McHenry, over which Key, a prisoner on a British warship, beheld his country's flag still flying...
...Catholic Centre Party, which holds a key position in the German Government coalition, draws its strength chiefly from voters in the Rhineland, and these were in a ferment of fear last week lest the "new" and "immoral" Young Plan conjured up by Dr. Schacht should give France the right to reoccupy the Rhineland in case Germany defaults on her Reparations payments...
...fund raised by Mr. Lloyd George in the last years of his Prime Ministry, allegedly by selling peerages. He insists that he has never put a penny of the money in his own pocket, keeps it in the mythical Party Oak Chest to which he alone has the metaphorical key...
...same level. In between the musical numbers the pace lags. Of the airs the most familiar is "Gypsy Love Song", and it is sung by Philip Conyers, but unfortunately the part calls for a basso of extraordinary profundity and Mr. Conyers attempted to master it in a key so low that his voice lacked the power to bring out the full effect. If pitched a trifle higher the results would be considerably better. In this number the accompaniment by the chorus was skillfully managed, as was the massed singing when they appeared at the several finales. The other male members...
...Seven Keys to Baldpate (RKO). Earl Derr Biggers wrote the story. George M. Cohan made a play of it. Douglas MacLean was in it as a silent picture. As a talkie it proves again that the mechanism of the mystery story is an ideal device for comedy. Richard Dix is the young author who bets that he can write a book in 24 hours and sits down to work in a lonely house in the country to which he believes he has the only key. Typical shot: $25,000 in stage money burning in the fireplace at Baldpate...