Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest attorney, the distinguished Dr. Nagy, cabled that, since all Count Karolyi's estates have been seized by the State, the Hungarian Royal Court has now "admitted him to the privileges of the poor," and inscribed his name in The Book of Paupers...
...sooner was the grave charge of "conspiracy against the state" read out to Bela Kun than he bounded to his feet and roared at the judges: "I am always conspiring for the welfare of the Soviet State, which is even now triumphing over your petty bourgeoise bureaucracy! . . . There is nothing criminal about my activities, which are always purely political...
...marathon. With this as evidence they commanded Promoter Crandall to stop his marathon. Half an hour before the time set for foreclosure, Promoter Crandall mounted the rostrum in Madison Square Garden, made an eloquent and graceful speech and announced his immediate intention of transferring the entire spectacle to another state. "In this land of the free and home of the brave," he shouted, "no one ever got stomach ulcers from dancing . . . every participant except the male member of team No. 7 has agreed to follow me to New Jersey tonight...
...vision?though even now Promoter Crandall is wall-eyed and wears glasses. Once able to see, Promoter Crandall lost no time in carving a career for himself. He worked in a store, became a reporter for the Tri-State News Bureau, sold cinemas to exhibitors, became the manager of several cinema stars (Theda Bara, Clara Kimball Young, Irene Castle, Lew Cody...
...even in its most formal and purely aesthetic aspect, depends on some theme which is a living factor in the existence of a whole people and which colors their emotions and motivates their lives. . . . "To say that pictures need not, or should not, tell a story is to state the problem falsely. In all great epochs of art, the painter's subject was already a story with which generations of poets, philosophers and visionaries had moved the hearts and stirred the minds of men. "If the painter is to survive he must make his job a necessary...