Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal to give M. P.'s free railway passes was attacked by the press. The liberal Star and the ultra-conservative Morning Post joined in heaping ridicule on the efforts of members to save themselves ?70,000. The Post observed: "If this country cannot afford to defend itself [referring to the abandonment (TIME, March 31) of the Singapore naval base scheme], it cannot afford to pay for the luxury of sending politicians to Parliament." Rejection of the bill was forecast...
...Such ultra-liberals as Debs, Nearing, and Foster, may speak at the Union in the near future as a result of the agitation of the Undergraduate Committee for more liberal speakers. A special committee was appointed yesterday to discuss the matter, and to come to some agreement on which, if and, of the men proposed should be invited to the University...
...last year's Hasty Pudding show, are the most experienced members of the cast for the new play, "Who's Who", as it was announced last night. This year Pratt is taking the part of the leading lady, Janet Adair, while Carson has the part of Kitty, an ultra-modern chorus girl...
...opposite view of Stinnes was recently taken by the ultra-reactionary organ, the Deutsche Tageblatt. It cynically refers to him as a "cringing subordinate to international Judaism" and, in biblical style, refers to how he, "breaking into a cold sweat, with the world dancing around him," saw an apparition which commanded him to stop advertising Henry Ford's book, The International Jew, in his paper (Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung...
...Metropolitan, Massenet's Le Roi de Lahore was given its first showing one evening last week. As a stage spectacle, it was ultra-magnificent. Boris Anisfeld, most vigorous of modern Russian 'decorative artists, given a free hand with Eastern temple scenes and Oriental Gardens of Paradise, had splashed his paint regardless. The story, too, had its points as melodrama. Alim (King of Lahore), Scindia (Prime Minister), Timur (High Priest), the god Indra, rajahs, priests, fakirs, soldiers, dancers, bayaderes, slaves, musicians united in scenes of love and war to produce a scheme of action, ending gloriously in two suicides...