Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burlington have failed to find any C. L. Dean.* Apparently, therefore, the writer of the letter in question shrank behind an assumed name or place. His letter, however, indexed him to a certain extent by evincing heated intolerance for Christian Scientists because we choose to depend on spiritual law, power, and practice for prevention or relief from disease. Therefore, I maintain that his intolerance is at least less creditable than our preference...
...theme of the play is just a bit nasty-mother love perverted to a selfish maternal obsession, or in other words the mother-in-law problem taken seriously, and treated almost savagely...
Miss Crews' acting of the disagreeable mother role granting the truth of the author's conception of this role that of an artificial and self-centered woman is very close to perfection, and one could hardly imagine a more convincing portrait of the daughter in-law battling for her rights than that given by Elisabeth Risdon, who fully justifies the predictions made for her future when she was still in minor roles...
Pamela Sampson, as almost another daughter-in-law, and Alden Chase and Jack Livesey as the two sons, handle their less exacting parts with complete adequacy...
...Baumes Act, which has given rise to a great deal of discussion of late, provides among other things that a fourth conviction of felony automatically entail a life sentence. It is felt by a great many eminent jurists that there are individual cases for which an exception to this law could beneficially be made. The Baumes Act was passed in New York State in 1926 and has subsequently been adopted by several other states...