Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NEXT ROOM-For those to whom mystery is the salt of theatrical diversion...
Jack Dempsey: It was reported that my father, Hyrum Dempsey, of Salt Lake City, was fined $50 after entering a plea of guilty to a charge of having mixed highballs with liquor from a pocket flask...
...comfortably in a wave of innocuous benevolence. Mr. Belasco has established there a sunlit sea of pleasantness, rippled by waves of wit and wafted fitfully over the audience. Unhappily, the waters of this wave are rather flat and dead. There is no swirl of red romance; there is no salt sting of savory satire. The play is just a trifle too harmless to be regarded seriously as amusement...
...course, if there were a general feeling that recognition of Russia would merely increase her potency for hostile propaganda, and would seriously threaten our national safety, recognition would be manifestly out of the question. But the calm way in which the public has accepted the Moscow dispatches, and applied salt to the tales of revolution and conspiracy proves that there is no real fear. It proves, on the contrary, that America regards Russia with interest but certainly without much apprehension. And in view of this favorable attitude, the policy of far-sighted statesmanship,--if not of ordinary, average common-sense...
Later on H. E. Salt sL., delegate from Great Britain, and Robert Francillon 1G., delegate from France, fought out the old controversy over the ratio of sea armaments, La Cauzei, delegate from Italy, coming to the aid of France...