Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Notes From a Soviet Diary" by Mr. Charles Sanders Pierce are mainly interesting to a student of the new cinema art. On other matters they are notably observant and fair minded, lacking the prejudiced pro or con attitude toward social Russia which characterises the writings of so many modern students and travellers...
...Shaws moved from their famed quarters in Adelphi Terrace when the building was torn down, and live today in a modern elevator apartment ("service flat") overlooking the Thames...
...bestowal upon the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir of the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India. Seldom has the broad-mindedness of British royalty in matters of state been better exemplified. All England knows that in one of the most unsavory trials of modern times (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) this potentate, then heir apparent, was proven to have been surprised in Paris and in guilty company with the wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed as long as possible under the designation...
...Vauncey." So-called "modern names" for British young women, noted this year in large numbers for the first time on election registry lists...
...however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best, at its worst a kind of Bostonian black-bottom, deals with an old Negro's denial and final acceptance of modern medical methods. Best shots-Gummy, whose feet hurt...