Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politicians, reading the Organization's first manifesto, paused to ponder these words: "We deplore the evident hypocrisy of many of those who hold or seek public office. Too often it is cynically assumed that so far as the Volstead law is concerned a man's acts need not conform with his votes. We believe in exposing such hypocrisy, because such men are unfit for any public trust...
After the House had passed the bill, Prof. Zechariah Chafee Jr. of the Harvard Law School discovered in it a little-noted provision designed to exclude from the U. S. all seditious literature. Prof. Chafee complained that this restriction would cut the U. S. off from a large sector of the political and economic thought of Europe, would transform the customs service into literary censors...
...includes most of the virtues and few of the defects of Russian filmcraft. A farmer who falls in love with a young girl gets his son to marry her so as to bring her to his house. While his son is in the army he rapes his daughter-in-law and has a child by her, which precipitates tragedy when the soldier-son comes home. Inside this gloomy framework dances the life of the lovely Russian countryside. You see how the people get married, do their work, say hello and goodbye. The Soviet propaganda is reduced to a little dose...
...white cat which pawed the footlights during the first act. So charming was the animal that the audience all but forgot how Nancy Lane's adopted children, and their sudden $750,000 legacy, were about to be filched from her by her wily, citified sister and brother-in-law. Later on, when the cat had slunk away, the audience found nothing to divert it from the incredibly hoary spectacle of the two small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation satisfied Playwright Carl Henkle's taste for the archaic. He also...
...last the law prevailed. Superintendent of Police William O'Neil called it "the worst riot in my 40 years' experience. . . . Not the students' fault . . . the rabble around them...