Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...herself there is bound to be drama. Set this story in a Singapore dive, with yellow and brown wickedness all around and the atmosphere is perfect. Particularly when Lon Chaney plays the bad man with an unsightly cataract on one eye. You may not believe but you cannot resist...
...rarely discriminative collection of such tidbits, he has fashioned these wholly delightful and often pungent essays chiefly anent great soldiers of the past. One can no more resist quoting a few of Mr. Hudleston's "good things" than he could resist jotting them down...
None the less, the many obvious grounds of dissent at Geneva last week among Germany's onetime enemies, gave Count von Bernstorff an opportunity for polite but insidious irony which he was unable to resist. The Count, whose vivid charm of manner won him much social popularity in Washington before his "undiplomatic"** intrigues as pre-War German Ambassador were discovered, arose at Geneva last week and spoke with a malicious twinkle in his eye: "The delegates should apply to their nations the same rules which they applied in disarming Germany. . . . Talk of 'regional security' would seem slightly out of place...
...authorizing of this additional expense will make it all the more necessary to resist the passage of bills which would increase by any considerable extent the necessity for permanent appropriations...
Hereditary Cancer. Most authorities hold that cancer or susceptibility to or resistance to the disease is peculiar to each individual, that none of these conditions can be inherited. However Miss Maude Slye of Chicago, who for 18 years has been experimenting on mice with cancer, claimed last week that the ability to resist the disease is inheritable, that she has prevented its appearance in 25 generations of mice, that the American Association for Control of Cancer should be condemned for not warning the public of these facts...