Word: ultras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painting a geometrical portrait of Percival Redingote (Alan Mowbray) who, in turn, is about to carve a bust of Sena. Because Miss Foster is a brittle beauty, Mr. Morgan an absurd farceur, and Jo Mielziner, who designed the scenery, knows how to burlesque the futuristic trend, this satire on ultra-modern estheticism by Novelist Ernest Pascal (The Marriage Bed) has its memorable moments. What the quaint older generation would have called a love affair occurs to Sena and Percival. To them it is merely a biological barb which can be plucked out in one assignation, leaving them to work...
...That speculation had been encouraged by the over-conservative financial reports of corporations. There have always been dishonest concerns which rig their books to show $1 per share profit when actually there was no profit. But suppose an ultra-conservative concern, by scaling its assets to minimum and carrying the liabilities at maximum, shows $1 per share profit when someone else thinks they might presumably have shown $2 per share profit; then the incentive to imagination and hence speculation is great and obvious...
...opening, however--and its success is still far from certain--can mean little in such a campaign. Ten thousand alumni basketball teams assemble annually to battle ten thousand school teams. Hockey and football, more dependent on carefully pre-outlined systems of attack and defence; track and crew, relying on ultra-scientific training; these are far too complex for a mere player to teach as he plays; and wasn't there, sometime, somewhere, a lament about the overburdened college athlete...
...These are the ultra violet rays, as it were, of the painter's spectrum, and the artist who, like Mr. Chandor, is not blind to them presents a genuine and sincere portrait rather than a mere likeness...
...calling of another naval reductions conference. There was no mention of Prime Minister MacDonald's proposed visit to Washington. Government operation of the coal mines was barely hinted. The only unexpected parts were the paragraphs referring to the appointment of a liquor commission, a sop to such ultra-dry Laborites as Philip Snowden; and a proposed commission to investigate proportional representation in elections, a peace offering to the Liberals...