Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, there is nothing to take the place of TIME and I consider it the greatest magazine of its kind ever given to the American public...
...like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture of a peasant marriage includes most of the virtues and few of the defects of Russian filmcraft. A farmer who falls in love with a young girl gets his son to marry her so as to bring her to his house. While...
...been variously told in pictures so many times that it has become part of a general background. Spectators will await, without fear of disappointment, the moment when the bridegroom leads the girl into a mansion, and in answer to her awed question as to who owns this splendid place, explains that he has bought it for her! Best shots: Leading Man James Hall buying a taxicab; Miss Banky showing him the furnished rooms she has rented as their future home; a subway...
...Leaders. While other British weekenders discussed the situation, made bets, offered advice, the three principals spent their weekend conferring with party colleagues. Stanley Baldwin retired to the prime ministerial estate, "Chequers," in Buckinghamshire. Ramsay MacDonald went to Hampstead. David Lloyd George went to his country place in Surrey, chuckling to newsgatherers...
...Chequers" Stanley Baldwin conferred with die-hard Tory leaders but decided to place his resignation before the King...