Word: action
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps Mr. Laski will explain his stand and elucidate clearly the principles he talks for. There may be some extenuating circumstances hidden from the unenlightened. If he cannot wholly justify his course of action, or takes it from love of the bizarre, let us shun him as a "Boudoir Bolshevist," a breed against which we have been warned. D. H. WORRALL...
...Inspiration in unanimous Action...
...harder to get because it is an intangible thing. It is true that there is no necessary connection between a subscription to the Fund or a failure a to subscription and the sort of support that is really what is wanted. But there is a real inspiration in unanimous action, and while it is perfectly obvious that no member of the Faculty or of the teaching force as a whole should be asked to make any greater sacrifices than he is today making to sever the University, the fact that every one of them gave something, no matter how little...
France is officially at peace. Both the French Chamber of Deputies and the France Senate have ratified the treaty. The British Empire's ratification is waiting on the action of Australia, which member, according to all available reports will sign very soon. The United States .... What is the United States doing? Close perusal or reams and reams of congressional; Records fails to show that the United States is doing anything. The treaty will shortly be in effect, with the United States left out in the clod, unwarmed by anything but senatorial hot air. For surely, if this country delays action...
...Prince of Denmark who is a troubled human being rather that a mere deliverer of theatric monologues. Surrounded by a competent company, with an entirely adequate but extremely simple stage setting, with quick and silent changes, he gives us more of the play than we usually see. The action marches as a whole, and not as a series of incidents loosely strung together. A great actor is interpreting one of the masterpieces of all time; his understanding and his power allow him to show his audience the growth of the perturbed prince and the unhappy lot to which his fate...