Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he has seen them all, the Scholar emerges into Broadway and plods desperately to the adjacent saloon. Bending wearily over his beer for hours he thinks the whole thing through...
There was only one thing missing at Paris in this year's celebration of July 14, 134th anniversary of the fall of the Bastille: the military review at Longchamps was canceled owing to the heat. The populace was disappointed but sympathetic. The soldiers were given two days' leave; they were happy...
...seats to the party that gets a plurality of the votes. It was a great personal triumph for Mussolini. He had said he would have his way and he got it. At the conclusion of a rough, dictorial speech he exclaimed: "What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!" Ex-Premiers Orlando and Giolitti congratulated him; the entire Chamber rushed and hoisted him shoulder high and carried him around the building, singing Fascist hymns; the disgruntled Socialists, Communists and Republicans stared sullenly at the wreck of their hopes...
Nobody's Darling. A Baby Peggy picture?in which, as usual, the six-year-old star gives us furiously to wonder as to whether the best thing in the world for the future of the movies would not be to eliminate practically all movie actors and actresses over the age of ten. A delightful, natural and interesting film, that could teach some of Baby Peggy's older associates a good deal more about acting than they would be ever willing to admit...
...reported that American jazz still keeps its popularity in Europe, which is all the more astonishing when you consider the sort of thing t that passes for " American jazz." Of course, some of the jazz orchestras have American musicians, but most have not, especially in countries like Germany, Austria, Italy. The jazz orchestra of natives is usually made up of good musicians, fellows competent to play in symphony orchestras. They play the notes of their jazz scores like good musicians-on the beat, strict time, precise rhythm. They have not the remotest idea of the perversions of the time beats...