Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veto message is not to be confused with a veto. President Coolidge has, of course, vetoed other bills this session without explaining his reasons to Congress at formal length. For example, he vetoed a bill to increase Civil War pensions. As a result, the Pennsylvania Northeastern Association of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic assembled and proclaimed "that the said Calvin Coolidge wears A CORONET OF SHAME...
...Further to swell the fund, Mr. Churchill established last week, to take effect at once, an increased tax of four pence per gallon on automotive gasoline and oils-a tax which he declared will bring in ?14,404,000 ($70,000,000) this year "and more later." The immediate result was that last week the price of a gallon of gasoline jumped four pence and a farthing (8^c?) throughout Great Britain. Motorists cursed. Bus companies warned of increased fares...
...this play she takes the part of a girl, of 20, who has to pretend she is but 12 in order to facilitate her mother's snaring a British millionaire. In the impersonation of the child, there are considerable possibilities, and Mitzi realizes them. The result produces a considerable number of real laughs...
...total enrolment for the year reached 529, the highest figure in the history of the School. It shows an increase of 97 over the previous year, and was probably a result of the anticipation of the new and extended requirements for the degree of Master of Education...
...WALKS IN BEAUTY-Dawn Powell—'Brentano ($2.50). There is a theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel...