Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choose the same sort of ingratiating part for themselves, and when a new one fails to appear, and they find themselves faced with joblessness, set to work and revive an old one. Sometimes they make huge hits that way. More often they fail miserably. And still more often they turn out to be the kind of undistinguished, evenly flowing, slightly more than mediocre production that wended its quiet way across the proscenium of the Plymouth Theatre last night...
Insurgent as Zeus's own thunder, up at once arose Senator Borah, freebooting generalissimo, to challenge the Voice to continue. Though this was a war he talked of a plowshare, to which the Voice, he said, had put its hand and whence it could not now turn away. ''I ask from the floor of the Senate that the President advise this body . . . whether he approves of the industrial schedules in this bill...
...American educational system is not designed to make people know the truth. It is tainted with propaganda and with the money of Big Business. . . . The obvious purpose . . . is to turn out job lots of men and women with brains as standardized as so many gum vending machines...
Chairman of the Engineering Foundation is Henry Hobart Porter who is also president of the American Water Works & Electric Co., Inc. When 2,300,000 people in 195 communities in 16 states turn on their tap water, when 1,900,000 people in 1,275 communities in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio ride on trolley car or bus, these people are using water power or electricity provided by Mr. Porter's company. Stock holders in Mr. Porter's company know that its outstanding common stock value has risen $196,000,000 this year, that the total...
...tires of her caprice, and his infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement is softened by having the woman recover, the young lover turn back to his former fiancée and the career he had forgotten, but in spite of its compromises The Careless Age remains a better picture than most. Best shot: nerve-treatment in a hotel...