Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yes, I telephoned Mr. Hoover...
...Hello! Hello! Hello! Yes, I'm here. I'm speaking. Who are you? It's Scotland Yard! The Yard asks you a favor, ladies and gentlemen, not to wipe your wine glasses, as the waiters and plain-clothes men are taking fingerprints...
...Number One? [looking at Mr. Baldwin] Yes, he's here. He is in great danger. They want to know if he is carrying a gun ? they say it is the most astounding case the Yard has ever had and had to call me in to help them...
...screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences do not reflect any more coolly during this picture than they did when the play was a stage hit 19 years ago. Lionel...
...begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these "future mothers of the nation" are encouraged to "substitute" cigarets for "wholesome food." Furthermore, American Tobacco Co. "flaunts" billboard posters of an "adolescent girl" smoking cigarets. Says the summing up: "Yes, it's a shocking business indeed to urge cigarets upon the youth of the nation...