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Oscar W. Underwood, after four months abroad, returned to this country. In Alabama the State Legislature, which convenes in the middle of July, awaited the Senator's reply to its request that he become a candidate for the Presidency. He is rated a conservative, a "moist" (as opposed to "wet") and an advocate of an active foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...enforcement law. Anti-Saloon League Superintendent Anderson declared that if Smith were to veto the repeal, such a " shrewd stroke would make the Governor a national figure," and that otherwise New York " might temporarily drop to the level of Maryland and Massachusetts." Governor Smith, who was elected on a "moist" platform, announced that a hearing on the subject of repeal will be held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: may 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...adapted for the stage by Marc Connolly and George S. Kaufman. The movie industry amusingly " shown up " from supers to Will Hays. RAIN-A brilliant tract against militant Christianity in the South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine. U. S. Marines, real rain, and the hot, moist breath of the tropics. SEVENTH HEAVEN-A blacksnake whip and an off-stage rendering of La Marseillaise are the emotional assistants to Helen Menken in a thrilling melodrama of Paris. KIKI-Lenore Ulric still turning 'em away at the Belasco Theatre. The story of a little Paris grisette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...readin yer 8 moist Havurd poets for de foist time an on de level guy its de woist hokum I ever seen. Theys each one twict as bad as the rest. Its lousy dats the woid lousy. Over the radio from 33rd Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/22/1923 | See Source »

...deep, and you sit in the fore-chains day after day, and see the sun rise almost afraid because the sea's so lonely. . . . And there are noises under the sea, and sounds overhead in a clear sky. Then you find your island alive with hot, moist orchids that make months at you and can do everything except talk. There's a waterfall in it three hundred feet high, just like a sliver of green jade laced with silver; and millions of wild bees live up in the rocks; and you can hear the fat cocoanuts falling from the palms...

Author: By D. W. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF - REVIEWS - JOTS AND TITLES | 1/21/1921 | See Source »

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