Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the plot clear in the reader's mind, it is a simple and gratifying task to ascend to the level of personal performance. In the order of their appearance, J. McK., Kimball, as the hotel clerk, was perfectly terrible, but you couldn't possibly get sore with him about it. D. A. Williams, as Byron Victory Dawes, the head of the nouveau riche family and head of the suspender-trust, carried on in a fine fervor of unsubstantial middle-aged choler throughout. Mrs. Dawes, played by B. S. Cogan, carried on in a fine fervor of substantial middle-aged...
...upon their sentimental privacy. It never occurs to the stage criminal that his audience might, were it so inclined, betray his secret. His trust is as implicit as it is touch- ing. Suppose, for instance, that you, leaping up from your seat in the sixth row center, were to level an accusing finger at the dissolute brother and shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero on whom he is trying to lay the blame, who took the missing papers from the lower drawer of the mahogany desk in the upper left hand corner...
...willingness of the electorate to follow a bold and determined program." He said, in part: "If I were to suggest the underlying fundamental vice of American politics at this time, I would unhesitatingly declare that it consists in playing the game on too low a standard-far below the level of both the intelligence and patriotism of the voter. . . . Let us give to the country a thorough and fearless program. ... A Democrat in the days of Jackson was a crusader. A Republican in the days of Lincoln was an apostle...
...economic standpoint, on our relations with Russia. His points were: 1) that official recognition would not promote trade relations with Russia -other governments have tried the experiment and failed, 2) that all charitable relief can hope to do is "lift special groups from utter destitution up to the level of the general poverty," 3) that Russia must restore fundamental conditions of security and confidence before reconstruction can be undertaken...
ILLINOIS: A conference of representatives of the Great Lakes states was held in Chicago to consider the Great Lakes-to-Gulf waterway which Illinois is constructing. Wisconsin and Michigan are opposed to it because they state it will lower the level of the Great Lakes, which, as they assert, has already fallen four inches because of the Chicago drainage canal. Illinois experts reply that the lowering of the lakes was due to shortage of rainfall...