Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there he studied for a few months, bringing back with him Russian military experts who became instructors at Whampoa. Chiang has taken what Russian gold and guns he could get, but it should be noted that he could get no others. He has said: "We can and will use men and money from any nation sympathetic to us. . . . Russia, in general, has treated China better than the other nations...
...rubber manufacturers stand as such forestalled consumers. They use 75% of the world's rubber and control very little of production. Since it happens that the current price of rubber is 36? a pound the Stevenson Plan will call for a 10% plantation restriction by Feb. 1. Yet there are fairly large stocks of crude and scrap rubber in the U. S. The price will not jump wildly...
...cause for fidelity is blotted out by Constance's solvent enterprise in the interior decorating business. As for the second, it is simply an argument advanced by a Victorian mother-in-law with urbane cynicism, who declares that the only test of true love is whether you can use your husband's toothbrush. The dialogue is conscious of its own glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance of shining platitudes, universal conversation in the pseudo-Voltairian manner. Ethel Barrymore's acting is the stage Ethel of recent years, to which...
...with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage. As a matter of principle, Carrie at length enters objection, threatens exposure; Babe submits; Carrie, principle gained, withdraws objection. One scene stages the home-watched coffin of Father Ned, for realistic, mainly risible character study. Although the construction is loose-jointed, this is rather...
...special jury, which will make the award for the advertisement most effective in the use of the Typography, was also appointed, consisting of Joseph M. Bowles of the William Edwin Rudge Company, Printing House of New York; Everett R. Currier, President of Currier and Hartford, Ltd., New York; and D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press, Boston...