Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly in the latter class, lending itself at best in no very definite way either to acting or to production--for Hyde Park is not the easiest spot for the Copley to orient to its red asbestos curtain--nor is Lady Tonbridge's Charleston arena, nee home. The only thing it really adopts itself to is Mr. Mowbray's smile that was quite satisfying. Yet the best of smiles cannot cure the pain of the last lines. Those remain forever--shouted in the pseudo-alcoholic accents of Miss Ediss--"It's the will...
...most charitable thing I can say about it is that he evidently reads no newspapers and does not know opinion in other nations...
Stresemann's Apologia. Speaking for the Government, Foreign Minister Stresemann reviewed at length the whole course of the recent negotiations at Geneva (TIME, March 22 et seq.) which resulted in the adjournment of the League without admitting Germany. "One thing the German delegation achieved was that, in all the discussion about where the blame for failure lay, nobody blamed Germany. I know how many telegrams advising us to leave Geneva were sent from home. I think we might have harvested very cheap laurels by coming home. But by remaining we won recognition of our blamelessness...
...much for us. The dockets of courts are too heavy. The view of the problems of justice which any court may get is too fragmentary, and its experience is too specialized or too local to make it possible for courts to do for our time the sort of thing they did so well in the formative era of American legal institutions...
...would for a moment deny it. It is one of the inescapable features of the system--apparently bred in its bone--that if once you stop to think you lose the thread of the professor's discourse, and the thread of a professor's discourse is not an easy thing to pick up again...