Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase in first-class postage from 2? to 2½ or 3?. Argument for the increase: Citizens pay the deficit anyway, either in higher postage rates or U. S. taxes...
Reduced to essentials the argument understood to have been presented by Mr. Thomas at Ottawa last week may be stated thus: 1) Canada is smarting today at the certainty that she will lose much of her export trade to the U. S. when the new higher tariff bill is passed at Washington (see p. 13); 2) Canadian newspapers are clamoring that the Dominion should retaliate by raising her tariff on goods which the U. S. is anxious to sell to Canada; 3) Canada has been importing every year some 50 million dollars worth of U. S. coal; 4) If Canada...
...instance, Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game, a Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah...
...Mais, mon ami!" responded M. Briand, advancing a purposely weak argument, "I fear it would be a great hardship to move our troops in the cold winter months. Why not wait till Spring...
...Their dialog, consisting mostly of aggressive variations of the phrases "Says You" and "Says me," is amazingly rough for cinema, outshocks What Price Glory in places. One of the men gets wounded, the other leads his troops to glory. At the end they settle in their own way an argument as to which of them is the father of Lily Damita's child. Director Raoul Walsh, who himself acts the part of a Marine captain, gets music in by having the Marines play mouth organs, listen to instrumental concerts, and march, when possible, to bands. Best shots: disembarkation...