Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married to an impecunious musician, who forgives her for one lapse. She takes on a struggling scrivener, her second affair, and leaves her husband when that entity softly reminds her that after all, he is her husband, and won't she have dinner with him? For four months she lives with the scrivener, despite the plea of her now thrice-wed mother, who begs Ellen not to tramp the path of dalliance. Ellen is on the verge of another affair just as she learns that her mother, running off from Husband III, has killed herself. On hearing the news...
...piece, written by Maxwell (What Price Glory-collaborator) Anderson, has a good first act, a second act that gets by, and a third that is impotent...
...tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since where all is priceless nothing can obtrude in garish splendor. Here, last week, John Pierpont Morgan took three minutes to receive and accept the invitation of the Great Powers to sit on the Second Dawes Plan Committee (TIME...
Name of Committee. Since European papers are already talking about the "Young Committee" and the "Young Plan," reporters asked Mr. Young why he insisted on referring to the new aggregation as the "Second Dawes Committee." The issue seemed one of cloying modesty, but Mr. Young shot back an answer clean as a pistol bullet...
...call it the Second Dawes Committee, gentlemen, that will ensure the continuity of your files, and of the entire bibliography of the subject...