Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacture of near-beer and other cereal beverages. The tax was written into the bill at the request of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews, in order to enable him to have constant control and inspection of near-beer breweries to prevent them from selling high-power beer...
Cried M. Painlevé, as he stepped down from power: "Vive la Republique! But let her friends guard her well. There are many who would exploit her to the fullest in this critical hour...
...give a judical expression to the will of the Fascist Revolution. . . . Today, Fascismo is the only living force in Italy. . . . All else can be relegated to the museums!" Waving a sheaf of papers he exclaimed: "I have with me laws liquidating the past and establishing the base of Fascist power. ... It shall be for you to vote...
...there was one body which made the rest seem shoddy. It covered the spare, fierce bones of the fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop...
...means by theatricality, his companion theory of the monodrama. It means much more than the art of the theatre. It embraces a much wider field of human activity, originating, actually, in life itself and from there ascending to its highest expression on the stage. By theatricality he understands the power of transformation which he believes to be deeply rooted in human character. To appear what one is not, to transform life into a continuous performance is the ideal which should be set up by humanity. To put it in other words to escape the misery and suffering of existence...