Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police brutality, onerous anti-picketing injunctions, and the breakdown of the Jacksonville agreement were the burden of Mr. Lewis' tale which rambled somewhat under stress of emotion. President Coolidge's letter to Mr. Lewis in December 1925, was read into the record deploring "the breaking of any contract," explaining why the U. S. could not intervene, referring the miners to the courts, pronouncing collective bargaining to be "a principle now accepted in American life." Mr. Lewis repeated the miners' charge that railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. The names "Rockefeller...
...second landing of the Pilgrims, beyond the obvious enrichment of future antique dealers, seems to be of little significance. The modern "Fathers" will come, be entertained--somewhat more hospitably than their predecessors--and go home again. And another sight seeing bus will have "done" the Commonwealth...
Then the unexpected happened. News came out that some of the Lowden managers had been overgenerous and somewhat undiscriminating in their use of money. The Kenyon committee of the Senate brought out the fact that more than $400,000 had been raised by the Lowden managers and that the sum of $32,202, in particular, had been injudiciously spent in Missouri for the apparent purpose of influencing delegates...
...Leopard Lady. She trains the big cats. He is a first mate. Together they dissolve the mystery of an Austrian circus driven somewhat mad by a series of murders, a Cossack rider, and his evil ape. His repertory of crimes is violent, grotesque, allowing Actress Jacqueline Logan, the Leopard Lady, to dress in siren skirts, to act hysterically in a picture which is otherwise emotionally excellent...
After this, the chase begins in earnest. There is an excellent scene in a signal tower wherein the very arch criminal actually appears, in coy and terrifying disguise, to prove that he can wreck playgoers' nerves as well as express trains. At the end of a somewhat talky mystery play, which will, however, cause the susceptible to shiver, the wrecker makes known his identity and jumps out a window...