Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scanners of the treaty thought it a slender theme for the exercise of Mr. Lee's imposing talents. The Wine Bureau will merely attempt to develop the international wine trade, "in accordance with the laws of each country," by releasing data "tending to demonstrate the beneficial effects of wine," and by sponsoring laboratory experiments "to demonstrate the hygienic qualities of wine and its influence as an agent in the fight against alcoholism (i.e. against "hard liquor...
Revolt. Author Harry Wagstaff Gribble (who wrote also that near masterpiece. March Hares) announces his theme as though he had himself discovered it. That the children of a fundamentalist preacher should become annoyed at their father's limitations is neither surprising nor interesting. Eventually the clergyman blows his brains out in an improbable manner...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church. South, Hoover-Democrat, continued his fight with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. During a speech at Bristol. Va.. he strayed from his main theme. Prohibition, to declare that Negroes employed by Tammany have white stenographers...
Jealousy avoids being entirely a tour de force because its theme is one in which suggestion is more powerful than presentation. Maurice Theulot suspects his wife, Valerie, of intrigues with an old lecher, Lambertier...
...Japan Steamboat Bill (Buster Keaton) was released with a theme song...