Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared that they wanted their pay and intended to take it from the treasury. They pointed their guns at the Congressional windows but did not fire them. Congress sent an urgent message for help to Washington, who was then at West Point, and without waiting to see what the result would be, the members of Congress unheroically slipped through the back door and made their way through a golden June sunset to Princeton in New Jersey, thus abandoning the seat of government to eighty mutineers and a sergeant."-Washington-Hero or Image. It was to assure to Congress a home...
...unnecessary restrictive enforcement regulations regarding medicinal agents. I need only mention the statement on the back of a recent issue of the Volstead prescription book: i. e., 'You are personally responsible for this book. It will not be replaced if lost and failure to properly safeguard it will result in revocation of your permit.' Such a statement may be characterized only as insulting to an honored profession."?Wendell C. Phillips, retiring President...
...Wedding. Russian art, music, drama, though often sharply crude, is rarely dull. This gruesome Soviet production is bluntly directed, stagily acted. But it is also strangely fascinating. The wife of a wealthy hunstman is horribly clawed by a bear just before her son is born. The son, as a result, is impelled to dress himself as a bear and craftily attack tender maids. At last, to the horror of the villagers, he marries a lively girl. The expected happens. He reverts to beast, rips her to death on their wedding night...
...with the prerogative of a recent Editor in Chief to be technical informs us that the new edition "smells"--though the olfactory impression he adds is sweet if not strange. The present Board has been thorough but not especially ingenious in the matter of content and execution, and the result is--just another Red Book with 1930 on the cover. This is in itself in no way a condemnation of the incumbent Board of the Red Book. By its very nature the Red Book has no continuity of personel from year to year. Each group of editors takes...
Professor Pribram, at present of the University of Vienna, will lecture here throughout the year on history. He has written a large number of valuable historical works. After the war he was permitted to study the official archives at Vienna and as a result edited and first brought to light the secret political treaties of Austria-Hungary from 1879 to 1914. The English edition of this work was edited by Professor A. C. Coolidge...