Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mergered last week were seven large California grape products (unfermented wine) companies into a $30,000,000 Fruit Industries, Inc. A potent Eastern competitor: Taylor Wine...
...that is, she made pictures without a permanent contract, hired sometimes by the week and sometimes under a blanket salary for a piece of work in a film that was being made. From being an extra she worked up to character parts. She had been a free lance for seven years when Paramount signed her. She did more character parts, then she was featured in a college story, finally starred in a succession of shoddy program pictures. Last fall von Sternberg directed her in The Case of Lena Smith, one of the year's best pictures...
...robe covered his gnomelike figure. An ermine collar, seeming to grow out of his greyish-white Vandyke beard, lay hot and moist about his neck. A black cocked hat sat strangely above his shaggy, quizzical eyebrows. The usually cool and comfortable philosopher of the Labor movement who was for seven years an M. P. in the House of Commons, a member of the faculty of the University of London and is now for the second time a British Cabinet Minister, fidgeted nervously between his sponsors, Lord Parmoor and Lord Ashfield, who introduced him to the assembled Peers. After his sponsors...
...Against 495 Conservative and 89 Liberal Peers ten Socialists plus Sidney Webb now sit in the Lords: Earls Russell De La Warr and Kimberley; Lords Parmoor Thomson, Olivier, Arnold, Sankey, Gorell, Muir-Mackenzie. Four are hereditary peers; the other seven rose from commoners. Five have heirs to succeed to their titles...
Film Quota. Vital to U. S. business was the interminable debate on France's film quota law, a law providing that only four foreign films (instead of seven, as now) may be imported into France for each French film produced. U. S. film men, when passage of the law seemed certain several weeks ago, threatened to withdraw all films from France at once. French exhibitors, knowing their patrons' preference for U. S. films, immediately protested. The quota law hung fire...