Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Italian League of Catholic Action number 500,000.* In Rome last week the newspaper Lavoro Fascista ("Fascist Labor") charged that the Italian League for Catholic Action (Azione Cattolica) is no longer nonpolitical, has become in fact the mechanism for putting into action a Catholic political plot. This plot, II Lavoro charged, was discussed at a recent conclave of Azione Cattolica, addressed by Monsignor Pizzardo, Under Secretary of State of the Papal State. He advocated, according to Il Lavoro, action by Azione Cattolica to seize the Italian State and set up a "Catholic dictatorship." What happens...
...provide Maurice Chevalier with proper and improper opportunities to display his ingratiating leer, wear a straw hat with dinner clothes, gurgle flip bedchamber music as the accompaniment of an amorous escapade. Ernst Lubitsch, hired to give the proceedings the correct continental air, used sarcastic burlesque to brighten up a plot which no one would need to be told came out of an Austrian novel. He had fairly good material to work with-the story of a young lieutenant who, during a review for visiting royalty, winked at his girl just as the Princess went past. The Princess thought the wink...
...completion of transactions whereby the University will receive the present Spee club house on 15 Holyoke Street, and will give the club a plot of ground with an 80-foot frontage on the west side of Holyoke Street at the corner of Mt. Auburn Street and a 90-foot frontage on the south side of Mt. Auburn Street at the corner of Holyoke Street, were made known yesterday. The terms of the exchange which is of significance in connection with the proposed new medical center, permit the members of the Spee Club to occupy their present house until...
...plot of ground received is the site of the Old Institute of 1770 building, a gray frame structure now known as 25 Holyoke Street, and occupied by students. This, together with 27 Holyoke Street, now occupied by Dr. T. L. Harris, Religious Adviser, and several students, will be torn down...
Miss Chatterton as usual was more than an excuse for the plot. She labored under difficulties inevitable when Hollywood goes London. Perhaps someday a director will realize that even in America we have our heart-throbs in a polite and cultured way. Not often, but occasionally...