Word: subs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge of Prohibition enforcement, looked upon the work of the crusader and found it ineffective. Mr. Andrews is a General (a title he acquired in military service) and promptly he set out to reorganize the Prohibition Army. He decreed 22 new district commanders in place of the present 48 sub-commanders (TIME, July 6), a policy to which Crusader Haynes could little object, as it was aimed directly at the capture of the Holy City...
...Pictorial Review. From a pigtailed slavey to a wealthy, highly temperamental, badly spoiled but charming intimate of all the Victorian bigwigs including the seventh Edward, his cousin Wilhelm and even some Boston Cabots-that is a story made more remarkable by the absence of any evidence that Rosa operated sub rosa. By sheer elbow-grease, gaiety and culinary cunning, she became, she says, and remains, the outstanding cook of her time...
...sub-committee appointed by Count von Schlieben, Minister of Finance, to inquire into the situation created by the Experts' (Dawes) Plan, reported to the Reichstag Budget Committee that, unless receipts were maintained and expenses reduced, a financial crisis of the first order was inescapable...
Perhaps this picture was a just one several years ago, when the delegates from preparatory schools, men's, and women's colleges convened together, and the chief attractions for college men were the opportunities for mild summer flirtations and proselyting among sub-freshmen...
While "Processional" has as its subtitle "A, Jazz Symphony of American Life". "The Moon is a Gong" has as its sub-title. "A Parade with Shouting". "The 'Moon is a Gong" out-processionals "Processional". In his riotous imagination, Dos Passos makes confusion worse confounded. Every device has been accumulated to shock the eye and split the ear. In its revolt from realism it is frankly, blatantly theatrical, and heaps up all the artificial tricks of expressionist drama. As in the Fifth Avenue scene of "The Hairy Ape", so here in the funeral scene masks are used to intensify the impression...