Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the defeated candidate sought revenge, demanded that the Chamber of Deputies lift Parliamentary immunity from incorrigible Senator Maurice, so that he, Paul Hoeffler, could bring suit for gross libel and defamation of character. Sure of spicy details to come, Senators and Deputies angled eagerly for seats on the committee appointed to investigate the charges...
...after the latter's convincing victory over N. Y. U. is not to be regarded as a pushover. According to a former Harvard assistant, Holy Cross, using Notre Dame formations, is one of the fastest charging and hardest hitting teams of the East. The Purple line has a savage lift and drive and forms a dogged defense that is an even match for a somewhat doubtful Crimson forward wall...
...Friend the King. William Faversham is a vestige of that genial era, not long past, when certain actors with favorable features had but to smile manfully, lift their eyebrows and bring down the house. These popular fellows appeared in mellow legends which were just militaristic enough to permit them to wear epaulets, but not belligerent enough to ruffle their hair. One of the playwrights who devised their handsome parades is A. E. Thomas. Actor Faversham and Playwright Thomas are now responsible for this play about a King who retained his throne through the clever beneficence of a U. S. dowager...
...chambers. Coming in, after a decent interval, he is so hopeful of a reconciliation that he is bold to ask Ina Claire whether "anything had happened," and Miss Claire, who has spent her respite quarreling with Henry Daniel about opening a window, answers laconically, "Nothing unusual." You might lift her phrase from its context and apply it as criticism to the picture as a whole but only, in fairness, if you excluded the suavity of the tone with which it is uttered and the unfailing gaiety that gives it point. Director Marshall Neilan does a good job transposing stage values...
...reading room, the largest in any library in the world, a room 480 feet long, extending the length of the building. In the center of this huge room there is located a delivery desk 24 feet square, with a capacity for 1600 books within the desk. A book lift connects this desk with the book stacks in the basements, so that, at a moment's notice, the student may secure the desired book...