Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock company, but picks its actors from a large group, it need not overwork a few stars in possibly uncongenial parts, but may by careful selection obtain the best characterization for every role. Its very nature gives it many advantages, all tending to produce finished first-rate performances while its rather Altruistic character engages the attention and interest of everyone who occasionally hungers for an intelligent, significant play...
...Poincare, however, this fear is outweighed by the menace of a restored Germany on the French frontier. With her devastated area ever before her. France dare not relax her strangle hold on Germany until she has reduced her to a second rate power--unless and until the U. S. and Great Britain effectively guarantee her security. While the rest of the powers are slowly recognizing that it does not pay to be vindictive, France has throughout seen clearly that she cannot afford, as matters stand, to be anything else. And if I happened to be a Frenchman, I should doubtless...
...with a salary of $100,000 a year, ranking with Alfred H. Smith of the New York Central as one of the highest paid railway executives in the country. Between these periods his life was a matter of work; much of it, according to his own testimony, at the rate of 18 hours a day. He is the kind of a man who says and means: " The only way I know in which anyone can have an easy life is to earn it by the hardest possible kind of work...
...Liberals and the Laborites. Macdonald as Prime Minister with Asquith a peer and on the Woolsack and Lloyd-George Chancellor of the Exchequer pledged to carry out the principle of a capital levy, has all the elements of romance and perhaps just a slender element of possibility. At any rate Mr. Lloyd-George is more concerned in attacking the Conservatives as a "scratch crew of third rate mariners whose sole qualification for their post is that they are also mutineers" than in maligning those who may soon be his bedfellows...
...victory seems well-nigh impossible. Then, if the Conservatives fail to retain their majority, the world may be treated to the spectacle of political legerdemain resulting in a coalition of strange associates, soon to be followed strange associates, soon to be followed by another general election. At any rate England seems to be in for an interesting time...