Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fires. This final play of Owen Davis' trilogy of domestic American existence (The Detour and Icebound preceding) is the least worth while. In attempting to satirize suburban domesticity Mr. Davis has erred in sacrificing his deeper theme for surface laughter. The commuter who attends Home Fires does not rush from the theatre to the railroad station pointing an accusing finger at himself and sobbing " guilty." Yet the lines are undeniably amusing; Mr. Davis has fed them to the flames in sufficient quantities to keep Homes Fires burning on Broadway for some time...
...rush was bad on July 1, with the opening of the first month's quota of the immigration year (TiME, July 9). Then 11,000 immigrants arrived on the first day at Ellis Island. The rush was considerably worse on August 1 when about 15,000 immigrants reached Ellis Island...
...present immigration law 357,803 immigrants are allowed to enter this country in any year, of which number 71,561 (20%) may come in any one month. In the same way, the maximum monthly quota of each country is 20% of its annual quota. This results in a great rush each year during the months from July to November, inclusive-and especially at the beginning of these months. During July, 57,495 immigrants came to this country, and about half the 41 nations listed filled their maximum monthly quotas. At this rate the annual quota for all nations will...
While selective immigration, beginning before immigrants sail, will solve certain problems-such as the deportation of arrivals for unfitness or because they are in excess of the quotas allowed-it will not materially affect the "rush" question...
...Spoilers. There are a great many who believe that the movies should remain out of doors where the huts are far apart and the male inhabitants are blooded stock. Subscribers to this school of thought will thoroughly enjoy The Spoilers. It is concerned with the Alaskan gold rush and the love of a dance-hall girl. There is much hard riding, hard fighting, hard language. A crooked faro dealer and a good job in dam dynamiting add final fury to the flames of melodrama. Milton Sills plays the hero with desperate determination. There is much sincere savagery distributed among...