Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Pangalos and Admiral Hajikiriakos forthwith occupied Athens. There was some spectacular firing but no bloodshed and no damage. The Provisional President was permitted to request ex-Premier Papanastasiou to form a Government, but as his party, the Radical Republicans of the Democratic Union, declined to support him, he early abandoned his Cabinetmaking attempt. A government was forthwith formed by General Pangalos, who became Premier and Minister of War with Admiral Hajikiriakos as Minister of Marine...
...producers assured us would take an important part in this spectacle of vocal pantalooning which, owing to their absence, seems dull to the point of fatuity? We see horses, it is true, even camels. But where are the elephants?" Alas! because of the inability of the stage to support them, there were no elephants. The disgruntled listeners were forced to remain content with the singing of the famed stars, the playing of an orchestra of 100 pieces recruited from the Manhattan and the Metropolitan Opera companies...
...notable scene wherein members of the chorus parade in a fur shop, clad in robes, scarfs, peignoirs, polonaises made of the furs of every creature from a seal to a mongoose; good syncopation by the McCarthy sisters; terrible singing by Gordon Dooley; two blackamorons, Miller and Lyles, who ably support the hypothesis that a real Negro can be funny on the stage; one tune, What a World This Would Be, which will be monkey-organ fodder before very long...
...aswoon for a vanished barmaid . . . while down in the steerage the girl tosses on her midnight pallet, wishing for her hobo-brummel. . . .The audience in the Egyptian Theatre made comments on the picture. . . .An epic in comedy . . . Gloria Hale, his new leading lady, a most adept young actress . . . Good support by a comedian named Mack Swain . . . . An epic in comedy, written, directed, acted by a man who understands that the cinema is a medium of high art only because it can be used, as can no other medium, to express the illimitable diversity of life...
...policy of building only hospitals and asylums, decreed that a Catholic University should be founded at Peking, designated St. Vincent's Archabbey (Benedictine) of Beatty, Pennsylvania, to execute the task, called on the Church's faithful throughout the world and particularly in the U. S. to support it. To encourage the work and lend example. Pope Pius has personally contributed 100,000 lire and ordered the new University's Library to be supplied with copies of all Vatican publications...