Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have read and greatly appreciated the treatises on the 14th Zionist Congress, now held in Vienna (TIME, Aug. 24-31). Your correspondents certainly deserve praise for presenting news so correctly and in so concise and vivid a manner; only one thing was to be viewed with alarm-the fact that this news was under the RELIGION section. As stated, the Congress was to discuss such problems as "Should the colonization of the Jews in Palestine be based on socialistic or capitalistic methods?", "Should the policies of Great Britain, as pursued under the commissionership of Sir Herbert Samuel, be approved...
...Harry Leon Wilson's extraordinary story of a timid young man who imagined he was an Egyptian potentate and made good on the confidence he gained from ruling in his dream, has been pretty badly mangled on the screen. Matt Moore, able comedian, is miscast, being for one thing several years too old. The twists of character and the strange development of fantasy are lost. The film descends to the vague and chaotic level of slapstick comedy...
Mayor Curley has become adept in this sort of thing. An official ukase--and the deed was done! It was quite simple. Probably few men in the whole world could have done it so quickly and so easily...
Intensive practice for University football candidates under the new Fisher-Daly regime was continued in the new Stadium practice field yesterday, the workout being held only in the afternoon. Morning practice is a thing of the past, as single sessions are scheduled for today and tomorrow, and next week will bring scholastic engagements to the gridiron men, precluding double-time drill...
...twinkled upon the gilt-and-enamel lapel buttons, vest trinkets and watch charms of many a party of Elks, Masons, Moose, Knights of this and that, Loyal Sons of the other thing, as they craned their necks and arched their chests making holiday excursions up and down the Hudson River. Last week a municipal steamboat set out from Manhattan for West Point and again the sun twinkled on a galaxy of insignia, more chaste this time than usual, dangling at the midriffs of several score of distinguished looking gentlemen...