Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Half Way to Heaven the mechanical trick is original, credible. The episode hinging on it is strenuously exciting. An acrobat climbing up his wire ladder in a tent show to do a double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point...
...Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama last week when the State Democratic Executive Committee read him out of the party (27-21). The 120,000 rank-and-file Alabama Democrats who voted for Hoover were not drummed out of camp, only warned that a vote in the primaries would be a promise of party regularity. Leader Heflin paid the penalty to which leadership is liable...
Spade bearded Bishop Cherontie of Constanta beamed with pride, announced that Ileana's candlestick would stand on the Cathedral's high altar, its candles never to be snuffed...
...amount of evidence will convince me," said he, "that my government would deliberately invest with diplomatic immunity a fugitive from justice for the foul purpose of enabling him to evade arrest...
...Alexandre Taschereau, the crisp Premier of Quebec, had declared on his own behalf and for Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario:*". . . The price of $55 is not a fair return." This indication of provincial government opinion had stirred U. S. statisticians to compute that a price raise of $5 would cost U. S. publishers $19,000,000 yearly (TIME...