Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great as have been the varied contributions of science to mankind, it may well be that none has been quite so great as that of radio to the science of government, the exposure of the demagogue...
...enjoyed his new title for less than a day. Of him the London Times, said with a justice finer than eulogy, "Although he cannot be reckoned among the greatest in the long, brilliant roll of Lord High Chancellors of England, he must rank as a sound lawyer. . . . None excelled him in ... sanity of judgment...
...Although none could doubt the sincerity of bullnecked, forthright Lord Rothermere, persons of active memory recalled that while Signor Mussolini officially founded the Fascist movement in March 1919, this "founding" was essentially a renaming of Nationalist groups which had been assembled by others in the days when Benito Mussolini was an ardent Socialist...
...Nights in a Barroom. Temperance tracts, wild wives tossing their heads, Andrew J. Volstead-none of these have withered U. S. alcoholism so effectively as this old-time melodrama. In this revival it is played with complete and proper gravity. The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However...
...silent river valley, back to shore. The sea, the polar bears, the casual, surly, craven sailors of Hudson's crew, the companies who in England planned the hazardous voyages that their captains undertook, the acquittal which an English court allowed the mutineers who had marooned their captain,-none of these things escaped the attention of Author Powys. He writes about them with his customary precision and subtlety and imagination...