Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young lady who, though she began her career in The Truth About Blayds (1922), is still well and honestly within her 20's. Discerning spectators along the "road" soon realized how lucky they were to see a Portia who was neither an old stager nor an eager young thing with stiff knees and an Eve's apple. Thoroughly feminine in the love scenes, persuasively austere in the court room, highly decorative at all times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago, an astute Jewish criminal lawyer offered Miss Inescort...
...letter. What more natural? Even Siamese know that the President of Czechoslovakia is Professor Masaryk. Obviously Slovakia must have seceded from Czecho, and of course the secessionists had chosen another professor as their President. The capitol of the new state appeared to be Trencsen, and why not? The whole thing seemed so natural to the statesmen of drowsy Bangkok that they thought it superfluous to drop a cable query Europeward...
Recovering his startled wits, the Mayor of Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
...judicial forbears have rapped for generations, and around the big U-shaped council table there came to order some 14 statesmen, including Europe's famed "Big Three": Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain); M. Aristide Briand (France); Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Almost at once it appeared that the chief thing all these assembled Excellencies wished to accomplish was the avoidance of controversial subjects. They positively dared not risk having debates of any heat for fear of warming up international animosities likely to disrupt the work of the Second Dawes Committee at Paris (see above) which is trying to revise the Dawes...
...Farr of the Cricket Club last week, "I may have sometimes thought, mind you, that Barker was built 'all wrong.' He was. But there again, the poor feller was so terribly bashed in the War! Gad, I can't think of old Barker yet as a woman! The thing sticks and won't go down...