Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broadway (Universal). As a play on the stage, Broadway was memorable because the careful realism of setting and character made the high-strung plot seem truer than it was. In cinema the second rate cabaret where a dance team kept love and ambition alive in spite of the machinations of a master-gunman, has been replaced by a palatial and enormous nightclub with modernistic settings. It does not seem reasonable that the clients of such an establishment would pay to see such inexpert dancing as Glenn Tryon's and Merna Kennedy's. Features of the cops-&-robbers subplot...
...signalized the finality and success of the efforts of his fellow delegate, Owen D. Young. The press of all nations concerned joined in thoroughgoing applause for the onetime New York plowboy who, real author of the so-called Dawes Plan of 1924 and patient chairman of the so-called Second Dawes Committee, had at last had his name written into the history of world finance as author of the now-agreed-to Young Plan...
...would be in power, the Conservatives would be the next most important group, the Liberals could be ignored. In England, however, precisely the reverse was the case. The 47 Liberals were most important of all, for in their hands was a balance of power between the Conservatives, who remained second-most important until Prime Minister Baldwin should be actually ousted by a vote in Parliament, and the Laborites, who could not decide what to do about their plurality until the other two parties made their moves...
...lecturer, student of world-wide magical history. Magician Mullholland was invisibly assisted by Dr. Shirley L. Quimby, apparatus expert, professor of physics at Columbia University. Dr. Hooker's guests were led from his dark panelled home through a small grassy courtyard, into a private chemical laboratory. On the second floor was a tiny impromptu "theatre" which seated about 20 people. The walls were lined with books, many of them on magic...
...Second, with 21 points, came the University of Southern California. Followed Pennsylvania with 18⅞, New York University with 14, Yale with...