Word: return
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashion of the moment. The bug of specialization has bit the colleges, and the average undergraduate is too firm in his own mind, or too solicitous for his own welfare to lavish time and ability on a multitude of matters that do not yield him a definite, tangible return. There may be nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lags, but nowadays people choose one and stick to it, confident that every single one of them is right...
Coincident with the return to London of James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Party, a manifesto was issued, last week, declaring that the Party will champion "reform of the Bank of England" as a leading issue in the 1929 election. The "reform" envisions Labor representation on the Bank of England's omnipotent Governing Board...
Since Pilgrim Nobile's return to Italy, he has heretofore been partially under suspension, with the technical status of "an officer relieved from active duty while under investigation...
...Europe feared him. Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack." Aside from legitimacy there was only one thing that he wanted, and that the hand of Leopold's fiancee, fair Eleanora. In return he promised to vanquish the enemies of the empire, and establish Leopold on the imperial throne...
Bronson) is a cigaret girl who has always loved Al. She persuades him to return to Broadway. Marcus has been looking for him. He joins a show, again gulps huzzas. Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...