Word: redeemingly
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Androcles, however, is a genuine triumph. Henry Travers, veteran of many a Guild production, plays the lead amazingly amusingly. Miss Eames and Mr. Powers redeem themselves with excellent performances, and an actor named Edward G. Robinson is immensely satisfactory as Caesar...
...novel twist of one of the oldest existing publicity ideas-the lottery scheme-recently occurred, simultaneously, to the editors of certain vulgar U. S. newspapers. To issue lottery tickets redeemable for cash is, of course, forbidden by law. But, since all paper bills are numbered, why not, thought the editors, make currency itself the lottery tickets? Every day certain newspapers began to publish the serial numbers of $1 and $2 bills. Persons who found lucky-number bills in their possession could redeem them for substantial prizes. Cashiers began to spend hours reading the numbers of all the bills that passed...
...making this offer, the Government expressly stated that it recognized only its moral and not its legal responsibility. The bill provides that those investors who have held bonds since 1920 or before are to receive 5% interest on the new issue and the Government is to redeem annually $6,250,000 of the converted loan at par. Those subscribers who are practically destitute are to receive a "social rental" (apparently a small annual repayment of principal in addition to interest) of 2% of their holdings, in no case to exceed a total of $150 per annum, the annual...
...Italy-America Society, Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., who is returning home next month, stoutly defended the Fascist regime in Italy. He spoke of what had been accomplished: balanced budgets, reduction of internal indebtedness, prosperous industries, etc., and said that the Government was arranging to redeem $15,000,000 worth of bonds falling due in the U. S. in 1925. Said he: "We-that is, Mussolini and his faithful followers, including the most patriotic elements of Italy-are going to see that this work is carried out to a finish. After all, Fascismo has caused...
...from all parts of the world, not because it is a holiday or a picnic, or from any desire to give vent to our emotions, but because we are charged with a responsibility to our race to enter on the vast duty of Empire building. We are here to redeem the 12,000,000 miles of our native land...