Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anciently Sardinia was colonized by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans. By the House of Austria it was ceded in 1720 to the Dukes of Savoy in exchange for Sicily. Thus it is the modern seat of the ancient House of Savoy, now the reigning family of Italy...
...twelve years ago by famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...
...responsible for the success. It is of little import whether the contributions of the Wrights were or were not minor improvements which only added the finishing touches to a mechanism almost complete. The fact remains that they gave final impetus to what is now one of the greatest of modern industries. It is equally true that there is honor enough for all, and for the institute to be generous and the inventor to be gracious would bring to both the greater glory...
INTERFERENCE-A modern Enoch Arden, with several wives, goes Galahading off to jail for killing his true love's enemy (TIME...
...Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under an aquamarine sky ! Lazy gondolas ! Beautiful Italian gardens! . . . And, ever present, the waters of the Great South Bay lapping lazily all the day upon a beach as white and fine as the soul of a little child "Thus, the log cabin of the modern pioneer...