Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of a Monagasque revolution; not so Princess Charlotte. She rushed to Monte Carlo fortnight ago, listened long and patiently to the Monagasques' complaints. On to Marseilles went she to argue the justice of their claims with her father. At length after a long and exhausting family scene, he relented, wrote a favorable reply to his subjects' demands. With Prince Louis' letter in her handbag, adopted daughter Charlotte hurried back to Monaco...
...creative imagination embodying in material forms a spiritual force. The first donors, backing an un- formulated project, the many early helpers among business men, led by Major Higginson, who in those initial years gave unflaggingly of time and counsel, would, we may imagine, look with amazement upon this splendid scene. But they would also look with pride, and their pride would be justified, for they, too, share in this great achievement. A great seat of learning gave her best endeavors to meet the need for the trained men they craved for business; it gave its full recognition to the profession...
...parting salute of two bursting bombs on the doorsteps of nonstriking street- car men, and New Orleans' street car strike which had lasted since July 2, came to end. The peace was made far from the scene of activities. Father John O'Grady of Washington, D. C., who was in New Orleans when the strike began and tried unsuccessfully to mediate, succeeded at last after consultations in Manhattan with William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and with officials of the Public Service Co., and local union leaders...
Politely the audience sat through scenes showing Chicago gangsters in a loop dive, other scenes of the same gangsters being converted "to the religion of Henry Ford,'' by a bawdily singing Salvation Army worker. Then the curtain rose on the third act, entitled "In the Cathedral of the New Religion." The scene was a church interior. Over the high altar hung a sign "BETHLEHEM STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford...
...rifle fire on Soviet border troops in the Grodekov-Poltaskoya district, in the Nikolsk region [on the 'eastern front' near Vladivostok]." The Chinese version of this clash described it as a "Soviet invasion" by infantry and bombing planes. The Japanese Rengo correspondent at Harbin, Manchuria (300 miles from the scene) probably hazarded as good a guess as anyone's as to what happened when he cabled : "There was hard fighting with considerable loss on both sides which continued for 20 hours...