Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blunt, practical expression of an ideal often mouthed but seldom practised by Congressmen after a general election. But coming from whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators on the party's potential leadership...
Wrote the next day famed Editor & Cinema Critic Mario Carli in Rome's Impero: "Perhaps past conditions approached those shown . . . but in Mussolini's Italy certainly nothing of that nature exists. Gypsies, underworld characters, prostitution, cheating, misery, vice, overdressed peasants, gamin life, people in rags, filthiness, superstition, thuggery, human landscapes immersed in endless fog-even the classic sun of Italy was obliterated by the Fox directors. Can you imagine an Italian seascape perpetually steeped...
...spirited of Manhattan's antiquarians is Mark Linder; he wrote a play from which lamed Mae West evolved the picturesque excitement of Diamond Lil; now he has scratched up further blood and thunder about San Francisco's underworld, 22 years ago. It is a candid melodrama, of vice rampant and virtue triumphant; yet its most bitter climaxes are meant to be accepted and enjoyed in a somewhat mocking spirit. The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years"; or, "Wong...
...have been invited: Philip Hale, dramatic critic of the Boston Herald; E. A. Weeks Jr. '22, of the Atlantic Monthly; D. T. W. McCord '22, poet and essayist; Bernard Barnes '30, assistant managing editor of the CRIMSON, A. R. Blackburn '29, president of the Lampoon; L. T. Grimm '29, vice-president of the Union; Theodore Hall '29, secretary of the Advocate; J. H. Sachs '29, dramatic editor of the CRIMSON David Sommers '26, graduate secretary of the Union; and R. G. West '29, editor of the H. A. A. News...
Elected. Everett Titsworth Tomlinson Jr., vice president of Doremus & Co., international financial advertising agency; to be president. He succeeds the late Founder-President, Clarence Walker Barron...