Word: levelizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This railway starts at sea level (port of Callao) and crosses the Andes reaching an elevation, near the station of Ticlio, of 15,665 feet. On a branch from this station of Ticlio to a mining camp (Moroco-cha), it scales even higher, or 15,865 feet above the sea. And this is all standard-gauge railroad with no rack and pinion. Now where is that puny little point in Colorado? . . . A. L. CONWELL...
...into a summer hit. The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...
...delegation was able to accept naval limitation at either the relatively high total tonnage level demanded by Great Britain or the relatively low level insisted upon by Japan; but since the British and Japanese were so far apart the U. S. delegation's ability to agree with either was of small consequence...
...there was good reason for Mr. Stevens to talk about the Panama Canal. Last winter he quietly went down to Panama to see how the big ditch looked after 20 years. His talk was his first publication of his impressions, which were, chiefly, that a $500,000,000 sea-level canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River...
...your man." That much Kitten O'Day (Esther Ralston) accomplishes by marrying Tod Gilbert (Neil Hamilton), who has come all the way from Niagara Falls to make his fortune as a song writer in Manhattan, never realizing at first that "Broadway may seem on the level, but it's a steep grade when you try to make it." It is Kitten who pushes him up. Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl sets a bum up in the oil business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration...