Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Boss Olvaney and other Tammanyites as polite judges. But there was only one "logical" candidate and eventually all were agreed. They could not have Senator Barkley of Kentucky because he had made speeches for Anti-Saloon League pay. They could not have Representative Hull of Tennessee for a similar reason. Evans Woollen, Indiana banker, was too little known. White-crested Senator Reed of Missouri scarcely figured; he had been so vociferously eager. William Randolph Hearst had sent a message recommending Major George L. Berry of Tennessee. But, good man though Major Berry was, no word from Mr. Hearst would...
...similar "unanimous election" was recently held in Portugal, where General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona is the people's choice whether they like him or not. But millions of Mexicans do like Obregon, who will resume office...
...priesthood, which inevitably led to his failure and crucifixion. In diagnosing Napoleon's career, and Bismarck's, Ludwig traced ascent to fame through youthful virility and brilliant ability, to anticlimax due to pride and hasty resentment. Perhaps something of habit has influenced him to a similar interpretation of Jesus's meteoric career, or perhaps from his viewpoint as a Jew he can but recognize as failure that tragic climax on the cross, which centuries of religious enthusiasts have eulogized as victory, and even the "higher criticism" of late years has diagnosed as the wise choice...
...lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind the screen are connected with the projection room. Vitaphone captures sounds, not on the film, but on a wax disc similar to a phonograph record. Some theatres have projection machines that can use either Vitaphone or Movietone productions. Mr. Shaw is not the only famed person whose voice and face have been caught by Movietone. Others: Benito Mussolini, Lloyd George, Edward of Wales, Ferdinand Foch, Raquel Meller, Beatrice Lillie, Vatican Choir...
...Glider: Similar to an airplane, but without a power plant...