Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan whereby the U. S. can promote world peace (TIME, July 9, July 16) announced that a referendum of the country on the winning plan will be taken about January 1, 1924. Fifty societies and organizations throughout the country have been organized to aid in taking the poll. The object of the referendum is that the plan may be taken before Congress with a definite indication of how the public feels towards the proposal...
...object of the Union is to encourage the world's politicians to meet, with a view to reaching an understanding of one another's problems...
General Weyler, head of a special mission from the General Staff, left for Melilla to arrange for another campaign against the Riffians; the object being to restore Spanish power over that territory. The war, if undertaken, will mark the close of a year of troubled peace in Spanish Morocco...
Tweedles. Author Tarkington sets the scene in an antiquity shop on the Maine coast. Julian Castlebury, summer colonist, falls in love with Winsora Tweedle, native daughter of the curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...
Even so Ruth Gordon's portrayal of Winsora Tweedle, the native object of his attentions, easily secures the honors. Her acting is the most eloquently inarticulate of all. It isn't nearly so much what she does as the infinite suggestion of what she might do away from the province of condensed Tweedlism that makes her performance a milestone in the season...