Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year engagement in New York, the dramatic composition of this name is attracting curiosity seekers at top prices of one dollar and a half. Such a substantial increase over the free for all admission obtaining during its New York, appearance, reverses the usual custom followed by the Metropolitan show company on tour, but it is to be doubted if the rumored twenty five dollar admission to Mr. Ziegfield's "Whoopee" will be raised in accordance with this precedent when it is necessary for it to take the road...
Although the characters are inevitably caught up in revolutionary politics, they show the typical Mexican indifference to all but the present, and live and love equally well in victory and defeat...
...treaties prior to the peace conference, Professor Seymour concludes "that Mr. Balfour and Colonel House discussed the secret treaties, and that in the conference with President Wilson which followed 'exactly the same ground was covered.' The question of the Far East was not raised and there is nothing to show that either Colonel House or the President knew anything of the understanding between the Allies and Japan regarding Shantung." The Colonel looked forward to the peace conference "as a good opportunity which may be lost because of the grasping, selfish interests ever ready to use such occasions for their...
...photographic plate is a glass grating of alternate vertical light and dark lines. In photographing, the camera so moves before the subject that its centre is always on a line with the centre of the camera lens and plate. The finished picture is striped. Some of the stripes show the person or thing from one angle, others from other angles. When a second glass grating is placed over the picture it makes the proper groups of stripes seem a solid photograph. The pictures are called parallax panoramograms...
...pledge card said: "Recognizing the tremendous importance of your final appeal for assistance in defeating the Roman Catholic Clerical Party* and to burst up the solid south, as a solemn rebuke to Rome's meddling in our political affairs, and to show the world that America stands firmly against RUM AND ROMANISM, I RUSH TO YOU the sum of $...., with my earnest prayer...