Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted the Conference report on the Jones-White Merchant Marine Bill; the Bill went to President Coolidge...
...Adopted the Conference report on the Jones-White Merchant Marine Bill...
...Debated the Senate's $250,000,000 bill to rehabilitate the U. S. merchant marine; amended it to facilitate the sale of Government-owned ships; passed it; sent it to conference...
George Arliss with subdued strength plays Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" this week at the Plymouth. He has throttled down the weeping and wildly gesticulating Shylocks to his own restrained taste. Moderation is born of the knowledge that orating Shylocks have long lain in the alley, that age's resignation to evil is in Shylock's limbs, and that this play is leaving the category of the one-part show. When Lorenzo has flown with Jessica and the old man knocks at the door of his house, there is no crescendo from wonder to premonition to fear to sorrow...
Alice in Wonderland, loved these many years by doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief, was also loved by a newspaperman-very, very much. The offshoot of the affair was a daughter, also Alice, who started her pilgrimage through North Hysterica just as her mother's manuscript body was being cruelly contested by the book-collectors. Once in the Delighted States, by way of the stem of a drinking glass, Alice Jr. revolved with the Rotarians round a luncheon table, but when she refused to make a speech the Rotarian next to her feared the girl was moody: "That comes from being...