Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Write six Dry mottoes. (Samples: "Let us use alcohol, not waste it." "Law makers must not be lawbreakers." "The Eighteenth Amendment stands for better 'boys and better business." "Is Prohibition a success? Ask the bankers. Ask the Salvation Army. Ask the social workers. Ask the mothers. ASK EVERYBODY...
...particularly original or ambitious, this account of Dorothy Mackaill's affection for a plumber masquerading as a famed actor has a nice flavor. More than half of it is silent, and the long stretches of agreeable, unlikely comic action, punctuated with subtitles, remind you how well the movies used to get along without the sound device. Plumber Jack Mulhall is proud of being a plumber; his theatrical personality is thrust on him by the imaginative girls he meets at Bradley Beach. Best shot: Mulhall showing he is an actor by reciting "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Wheel...
...more than 30 books and tracts. In 1923 after 30 years as active members of the Labor and Socialist movement they framed their first indictment of capital in The Decay of Capitalist Civilization. Though she is now automatically Lady Passfield, Beatrice Webb last week An nounced she would never use her title. Books written by them will be signed "Lord Passfield and Beatrice Webb." Unique is Mrs. Webb's decision. Other authors, including John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, have refused titles. But there is no record of a peer-author's wife refusing to become a Lady...
...whether emergency rations were aboard, did not consult the weather bureau regarding weather conditions, did not carry suitable tools, and did not make adjustments for changing the radio receiving set into a transmitter, which would have enabled them to communicate with the outside world." Also, inexplicably, they did not use their oil for smoke signals. Rebuked, they immediately started for London...
Prohibition. The conference was opened by N. E. A.'s President Uel Walter Lamkin. His message and plea: there should be no Federal dictation in educational matters. Thus, curtly, was dismissed the suggestion that all U. S. educators use Prohibition propaganda in their schools and text books (see p. 10). That Federal project had given N. E. A. members something new to think about. For years the N. E. A. has advocated the establishment of a U. S. Department of Education with a representative in the Cabinet. How much more likely, wondered observers, would the Government be to "dictate...