Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gherardo, the poor Parman is a religious rebel who gives all his money to the poor and dares combat with the Church of Rome. He is not, however, entirely a saint. His lusts lead him to betray a sympathetic virgin who later returns to help him conduct his holy reforms. Gherardo, veering like a mediaeval Elmer Gantry between his passion for this girl and his passion for reform, is led at last to betray his followers in an effort to secure her release from jail. In this effort he fails. He watches her being strangled and is then carried...
Result: much new and efficient telephone equipment has been Hoovered into service by dynamic, persuasive M. Bokanowski.* Last week he presided with dancing eyes over the banquet given at Paris by those smart, shrewd telephone subscribers who instigated the whole reform. They, pleased by the recent marked acceleration of service, gallantly tendered the banquet, last week, to 100 telephone-women chosen by lot to represent their Nimble Sisterhood...
When Prince Carol burned his fingers by dipping them too deep into the British pie, he was given notice that he would have to leave the British Isles. The paternal British government reprimanded the bad prince two or three times then finally grew exasperated when the did not reform and notified him that he would have to leave the country by today...
...heckle him, he fairly roared: "What! you mock us, do you? Then we will advance upon you with invincible power!" Paying but small regard to modesty, Chancellor Churchill added that "possibly" his new budget program is "the most important measure to be introduced in Parliament . . . since the great Reform Bill...
...issued a number of reports on various matters of educational or social import. These reports have on the whole been capably handled and have been productive of much discussion and some practical results. Their chief weakness has lain in their over-ambitiousness. A complete system of educational reform drawn up by a Student Council committee may have much value in some of its individual provisions but as a whole it is liable to be impracticable and based on insufficient data. If, instead of reporting on education in its entirety, the Student Council should direct its efforts to the task...