Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amid roars of applause. In vain pallid Lord Hugh Cecil* coldly interjected: "The Church of England is not, after all, a mere society for the better contradiction of the Pope." In vain, for the House had risen to "No Popery!" as a nation rises blindly to the trump of war. At 11:30 p. m. a division (vote) was taken. Into the "nays" lobby rushed Conservative Viscounts Astor, Liberal David Lloyd George, Laborite James Henry Thomas (famed "balance wheel of British Labor") and other members of wildly assorted parties to a total of 238. Into the "ayes" lobby filed...
...wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, all three call upon God to grant victory to their respective armies; but when the dummy makes no sign, each monarch begins loudly to protest his own complete innocence of War-guilt...
...RACKET-More recent gang war on a Chicago battlefield...
...naturally incapable of the functions most commonly associated with its kind. It must be admitted that Funnyman Berry is about ten times funnier than his partner and that the canny reluctance to state the name of the opponents of the French, English and U. S. Troops in the late War adds little to the suspense. Home Made. Johnny Hines, pretending he is a man pretending to be a railroad porter, meets a pretty girl. Then afterward, pretending not to be a restaurant waiter, he bluffs his way to financial and marital success. None of this is nearly as funny...
Died. Major Reginald Owen, son-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, and husband of Ruth Bryan Owen who ran for Congress from Florida in 1926; in Miami, of trench nephritis, contracted during British service in the War. London correspondents erroneously reported the death of Reginald Owen, British actor, now playing in Manhattan with Billie Burke in The Marquise...