Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short but very cold wave which swept the Southeastern States, especially Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, has at least blown someone some good. Discouraged cotton planters through that section, who, during the 1923 crop season, saw the boll weevil destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure...
Black Oxen. The wave of comment blown up by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's novel washed it immediately into the movies. To play it, Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle were summoned. They managed to do some rather effective acting in a moderately uninteresting play. The plot, of course, discusses the rejuvenation of Mme. Zattiany and her absorbing effect on Lee Clavering, newspaper columnist...
...Other Rose. Those who journey to the Morosco Theatre for the next month or two may expect to be submerged quietly and comfortably in a wave of innocuous benevolence. Mr. Belasco has established there a sunlit sea of pleasantness, rippled by waves of wit and wafted fitfully over the audience. Unhappily, the waters of this wave are rather flat and dead. There is no swirl of red romance; there is no salt sting of savory satire. The play is just a trifle too harmless to be regarded seriously as amusement...
...some months now Russia has been in the grip of "a wave of strikes." These movements have been of a dual nature: 1) active resistance by cessation of work on the part of industrial workers; 2) passive resistance by the peasants, who cannot buy manufactured goods until prices fall...
...Gonatas-Plastiras government rode into power in 1922 on the backs of a revolting army and a wave of revulsion of popular feeling against a king who had refused to join the Allies and made a mess of a campaign against the Turk. To make their position quite safe, the Revolutionists proceeded to execute the governing ministers and to get rid of King Constantine. Evidently then believing that they had better "make haste slowly," they invited Constantine's son to take the throne for awhile. Now, feeling with some reason that the new king had a hand in the abortive...