Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodrow Wilson, in Shanghai, was lunched by President Chiang Kai-shek, dined by Foreign Minister Cheng T'ing Wang...
Getting Even is a play by Nathaniel Wilson who explained before its premiere that he was making an attempt to adapt to the stage the staccato methods and quick scene changes of cinema. How hopelessly he failed could be gathered from the rude hysteria of his first audience or the comment of Critic Percy Hammond (New York Herald Tribune) who predicted that the cast would be "celebrated in the future for having appeared in the world's worst play...
...Wilson's "episodic cyclorama" attempts to paint in 34 scenes the tumultuous love-life of Veronica Mathilda McConnell, a poor Irish serving girl. At the age of eleven in the streets of the slums. she gathered stray lumps of coal to keep her drunken father warm. "Youse wuzz good to me," she breathed to the portrait of her mother (recently deceased). She appeared in rags, in bathing suits, in bed; as the innocent, the maiden betrayed, finally as the tempered lady who babbled of green fields as she died in New Rochelle at the tender...
Upon "those lots" Dr. Wilson, the board's secretary, caused to be erected a structure which many have charged is the Capital's busiest beehive of lobbying...
...Government started anti-trust suits against the four national meat packers-Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co., Cudahy Packing Co. There was no trial, for the packers went into court and consented to having a decree issued forbidding them to deal in other products than meat and its derivatives, likewise forbidding them to establish retail stores. In nine years, two major attempts have been made to have the decree rescinded. The U. S. Supreme Court in all its venerability each time reaffirmed the decree...