Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florida Girl. Earl Carroll, who usually contents himself with Vanities, turned with this piece to musical comedy. He made Lester Allen a leading comedian in the process and amused the initial gathering moderately...
...Allen is a comic who helped a lot in several Scandals and other musical pieces. He is a detective in this one, forced to discover smuggled diamonds before midnight. The process of the discovery is utterly illogical-there-fore completely and amusingly suited to musical comedy...
...settlement is conditioned by underlying factors inherent in the existing international system, which persuades nations to decline to submit what they consider important issues to the arbitration of impartial judges. Note the almost universal exception of questions of national honor, independence and vital interests, from arbitration treaties. The judicial process is weakened by a stipulation that there shall be no submission of anything important...
...hostelry, not entirely by coincidence, the mistress of a Prince, a Lord of the Realm, and their servants, maid and man. The Lord hopes to secure the lady for himself. Failing in his bluntly amorous attack, he sets his servant the task of seducing and humiliating her. In the process the slightly battered courtesan and the discreetly handsome manservant fall in love and dash off, as the curtain falls, to a London marriage altar...
Last week Dr. C. Judson Herrick, University of Chicago neurologist, issued statements anent the brain. There are 9,200,000,000 cells in the human cortex. In the process of thought one of these cells combines with ten others, and so on through a possibility of combinations expressed mathematically as 10 to the 300,000th power...