Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cherrington said: "In view of the fact that Prohibition is just now such a vital issue in the political field, even that which under ordinary circumstances would be considered strictly educational, may not be wholly without political effect, either direct or indirect, but the activities mentioned above are educational in character...
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...youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...
...naturalization & the Circuit Court decision. Said the brief: "The fact that the applicant . . . may or may not be able or willing to bear arms is not the sole consideration. The mental attitude of the individual toward the Government and its defense, with its necessary influence on others, is a vital matter. . . . She says she has 'no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.' . . . If every citizen believed as she does and acted as she will, we would have no Constitution and no Government...
...merger 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. Whereas their sound-picture rival Fox Film (with Movietone) has steady customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it has been, of strange and invidious exhibitors. With Stanley Co. and First National Pictures it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers-Paramount-Famous-Lasky...