Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...None of the committees reported to the Conference, which did not hold a plenary session during the first week of its existence. The three committees, however, worked hard, even on Sunday, and in spite of or because of innumerable rumors it was generally believed that real progress was being made...
...Experts' Plan has started to function, is to be treated more as a business partner of the Allies and Associated Powers than as an ex-enemy State, from which payments have to be forced. There will be control of German finance, of German commerce, of German industry; but none of these can possibly succeed unless German goodwill is shown. Moreover, Germany will have a distinct interest in cooperating with the Allies and their friends, because, through working the Plan, Germany cannot fail to increase her prosperity, which in turn may go far to stabilize the Republic by calming...
...very wild and rich rake who eventually receives what is known in ring parlance as the raspberry. The American public would not tolerate any of its fistic heroes in the latter unflattering light. And the American public could not conceivably believe in the verisimilitude of the first role. For none in America ever heard of a poor young boxer...
...Lewis endowed him, strung about with a few chunks of cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought out a sleek, home-wrecking creature (Carmel Myers). Mary Alden, the Babbitt wife, has played frumpy parts until they are second nature...
Cranking up, minus pontoons, at Karachi, India, the U. S. round-the-world trio took the air for Atlantic shores. Constantinople, Bucharest, Vienna, Strasbourg flashed by beneath them. On the seventh day they landed at Paris. Chagrined at being too poor to afford her own circummundane expedition, France none the less accorded the Americans an effusive reception-squadronal escorts of planes from Strasbourg on, cheering crowds on the Champs Elysées, cordial officials at Le Bourget airdrome...