Word: text
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple story of a hotel door- keeper who is dismissed because of old age. He dies of disappointment in the hotel lavatory and is abruptly brought to life in a regular Hollywood honey ending. The economy of effect, the brilliant play of detail, the simplicity make it a text book to U. S. directors. Unfortunately, even the performance of Herr Jannings cannot make the kindly character tragedy of deep dramatic interest...
...text seemed innocent enough, but there is a story behind it. The Allies had been holding a financial conference in Paris to determine the division of the reparations received under the Experts' Plan. The U. S., upon insistence, had been admitted to a share in the division. So an agreement was signed in Paris by the Allied Finance Ministers and, on the part of the U. S., by Ambassadors Kellogg and Herrick and Official Observer Logan (TIME...
First, of course, the text of the agreement must be discovered. This was the object of Senator Johnson's resolution. Afterward would be time...
...nothing is justifiable in the eyes of the Senate irreconcilables if it even remotely savors of an entanglement. They were expected to pass the Johnson resolution, to receive the text of the agreement and then to begin tearing it to pieces. Another battle parallel, if not equal, to the contest which resulted in the rejection of the Versailles Treaty may be brewing. Of the old irreconcilables many are gone, never to return-Lodge, Knox, Brandegee. But some still remain. Hiram Johnson still remains, proud of being "progressive'' and "irreconcilable." Around him the Macedonian phalanx will gather...
...current number of the Advocate shows considerable literary feeling and very creditable literary attainment. The curious quality about it is that although the bulk of the text continues to be formally prose, almost the entire spirit of the writing is poetical. The prose spirit scarcely appears except in the reviews, the editorial "Now That Mem is a Memory", and in the extended satire "Logic, or The Evangelical Ventriloquist", notwithstanding the maturity and power of prose narratives by Mr. Smart, Mr. Edmonds, and Mr. Finney. In the editorial on the closing of Memorial Hall, the voice of the Advocate joins...