Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity for Harvard undergraduates to prove themselves able and capable motion picture actors comes today between 11 and 12 o'clock when representatives of First National Pictures studios, conducting a nation-wide search for college men with screen personalities, will visit the Freshman Gymnasium. At this time preliminary interviews and photographic tests will be conducted...
...coincidence ,the same day that Dr. Barnes threatened to move his collection to Manhattan, the Philadelphia city council offered to give Joseph E. Widener a plot of ground on which to build a museum to house his art collection as a gift to the nation. The Widener collection is extensive, valuable, orthodox...
...once the word 'Wet' or 'Dry.' I do not use them, first, because they are vulgar, and, second, because they are meaningless. My sense of humor protects me from applying the word 'Dry' to those supporters of a policy which has filled this nation, from Atlantic to Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, with a traffic in intoxicating liquor, wholesale and retail, that is illicit, illegal, untaxed and stupendously profitable...
...Bank of England and many another stalwart banker and businessman gave anxious heed to the chancellor's words. The Treasury, he announced, faced a deficit of $182,500,000 on last year's finances; $160,000,000 of this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf and matches will be imposed. By a 33 1/3% duty...
...Since she married him for his title, this is inconvenient. She thereupon seeks out the genuine count and informs him that through some strange quirk of French law she is in reality married to him. He accommodatingly marries her and clears up the situation. The French are a funny nation, but lately such businesses as assignations between unmarried ladies and gentlemen in romantic chateaux, peculiarities of love, and the like, find so many counterparts in the Bronx and even Harlem that they no longer intrigue the U. S. playgoer...