Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Talking motion pictures which threaten to revolutionize so decidedly the stage and screen, will also be the instrument of making English the international language, according to the recent statement of a British film magnate. English as the practical successor to Esperanto may appear a visionary prospect until one considers the influence of the talkies in the far and near sections of the world. The younger set in the Fiji Islands, for example, are certain to become vitally interested in English upon beholding the magic of the silver screen and listening to the soft charm of the Hollywood talkies' silver tongue...
...based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions of fact. J. E. Willard '30, attacking from a new angle, felt that "the jury system makes law the instrument of man, not man the instrument of law"; whereupon McBride announced that "there is no danger of tyranny today". H. A. Wolff '29, summing up, pleaded that changes might be advisable, but not complete abolishment...
...provision of the Constitution is to be reconciled with the instrument as a whole. The word "adjourn" appears several times in the text. Less than a quorum "may adjourn from day to day." Neither House shall without the consent of the other "adjourn for more than three days." "Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President....." In case the Houses disagree "with Respect to the Time of Adjournment" the President "may adjourn them to such Time...
Seemingly petite and girlish Señora Sandino (see cut) was kept constantly under surveillance by "Lieut. Brownlee." Not a tick of her telegraph instrument, not a whisper in her office, not a letter in her mail escaped "Big Feet...
Scott Burbank '29 and H. C. Adamson will appear among the specialty performers, the former with a novel instrument act with cornet, xylophone and drums, while the latter will deliver various short monologues and imitations...