Word: liquidating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dunce Boy. There was much anticipatory comment about this latest play by Lula Vollmer. She was the author of the glowing Sun-Up and the successful, if not so glowing Shame Woman. The locale of her plays is the Southern mountains, her people the mountaineers. Their dialect is liquid, their passions primitive. She came from that country to Man- hattan, got a job selling tickets for the Theatre Guild. Then Sun-Up. Quite contrary to the custom, it must be said that Miss Vollmer broke badly with The Dunce...
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...there is bromine in seawater, about a pound of the heavy brown liquid to 1,700 gallons of ocean. Some Manhattan oil men have remembered this, have developed a new extraction process, fitted out a floating factory, the Ethyl, which sails next week from Wilmington, Del, for a long cruise and no port...
...weather permitting, is calculated to emphasize the importance of chemicals in future conflicts. Under cover of such a smoke curtain as will be produced, enemy aircraft could come up to their objective without discovery. The smoke-screen will be produced by ejecting half a ton of smoke-producing liquid from an airplane of special construction, which will be flown from Aberdeen, Maryland, for the purpose...
...Czar Reed, the powerful will, coupled with a brilliant mind. Longworth did not make his reputation like Reed, who in one of his first speeches, questioned by an older member who aimed to confuse him, answered the questions and then drawled: "Now, having embalmed that fly in the liquid amber of my remarks, I will proceed. . . .'' Mr. Longworth's talents are less showy and breed fewer enemies. So there is small prospect of his becoming another Czar. Why, then, did he want the post? The answer lies in the history of his career. He suffered long from...