Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course in such fashion as to do justice to all of its possibilities to share his personal reaction. The Confidential Guide is a collection of individual reactions-reactions intended as guide posts to other students, which may also be reasonably expected to bring out here and there points of vital weakness or strength...
...deal is of vital importance to Warner Brothers. They were the pioneers in the production of sound-pictures, which this year have given a new spurt to the U. S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. While their sound picture rival, Fox Film (with Movietone) has customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it was, of strange and jealous exhibitors. With Stanley Co. it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers− Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Loew...
Naturally U.S. motor men are vexed by the motor quota system, just as are Czechoslovaks by the U.S. immigration quota. But the need of developing a Czechoslovak motor industry is considered vital, and therefore a protective quota operates against even the Allied countries which secured independence for Czechoslovakia after the War. However, the "demand" presented by Minister Einstein, last week, was courteous and purely formal. Negotiations have long been smoothly under way to raise the U.S. motor quota to an annual total of 30% of present Czechoslovak production...
...Organized, protected prostitution is quickly passing out of American life and that issue is not vital. But vital or not, I could not in good conscience press this issue, realizing that Governor Smith, whom I greatly admire for his many high qualities, feels that my charges question the purity of his motives...
...Roundly naming names, Judge Wattine mentioned Dudley Field Malone, onetime Collector of the Port of New York, Benjamin H. Conner, President of the American Chamber of Commerce at Paris, and a half dozen more expatriate U. S. lawyers as especial objects of his wrath. As a first and most vital precaution Registrar Chipot of the Civil Court was placed on trial, last week, before all the 119 Magistrates entitled to sit upon that high tribunal. Registrar Chipot is entitled to charge 10 francs (40?) for "handling and filing" divorce papers; but he was gravely accused of accepting as much...