Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carpenters, he faces harsh Medieval tribulations, searching tests. After suitable apprenticeship he must wander about Germany, carpentering, for three years. As a full-fledged member of the Journeymen's Guild, the proud young Hamburger wears a broad, black hat, extra wide black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal Club. In discreet Berlin police circles it is admitted that...
...MOMENT HAS COME WHEN NO THIRD PERSON MAY STAND BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THEIR KING...
...lives this year?they can scarcely hope that any total of contributions, however large, will suffice to permanently relieve the perennial Chinese famine. Such considerations have determined the American Red Cross to send neither food nor cash to China; but persons who give even two cents to the fund may rejoice in the knowledge that they are putting a bowl-full of rice into an otherwise empty and agonized Chinese stomach...
...known to be so inquisitive about the making of his own pictures. But the talkie has caused a crisis. First the talkie has greatly increased competition in the cinema business?Fox and the Warner Brothers having taken a talkie lead. Second, if the talkies become dominant, the U. S. may lose its position in foreign markets because U. S. stars can, at best, speak only one language at a time. Therefore, when Mr. Zukor finally pronounced in favor of the talkie, he issued orders for a curtailment of reckless Hollywood expenditures...
...size with Zukor's Paramount building may be the projected William Fox's Vox Theatres Corp. building, to be erected at an anticipated cost of $10,000,000 on Broadway at 47th Street...