Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Much against his democratic inclinations, he kings it for a while over "that Eldorado tribe," mangling the traditions, making love to his Helen, and lording it over the aunt. In order to marry the lady of his heart, it is necessary for him to quell a sporadic revolution and reconstruct the government into a democracy. For Broadway's satisfaction, a New York pugilist, Larry O'Moore (Frank Otto) has been trumped up. When he claps a very formal archduke on the back in the hearty manner of Times Square, the audience hee-haws. When the cowboy (ably done...
...those mentally alert, however there still exist deadly bits of dagger play in domestic politics. By careful reading of the reports, one may reconstruct the Borgian episodes in which votes are used as weapons. The Pennsylvania primary, and the Wadsworth manifesto in New York are examples of the secret power of wet sentiment. For many a candidate, the prohibition issue will be as deadly a potion as ever was wine poisoned by intriguing princes. Thus, a sophisticated danger yet lurks in ballot box politics...
...have foretold the futility of the attempt. The Bells is an old melodrama of Alsace, in which the Burgomaster had murdered a wandering seed merchant 15 years before. Any doubt in this matter is completely cleared up when the Burgomaster stops the second act for about five minutes to reconstruct the crime in soliloquy. Rollo Lloyd played the part and did well in the face of its ancient and insurmountable difficulties...
...budget was originally planned by Senator Etienne Clementel, Premier Herriot's Finance Minister (TIME, Oct. 13), but the Herriot Government fell (TIME, Apr. 20) before it was voted. When Joseph Caillaux stepped into Senator Clementel's shoes, he had to reconstruct the budget. The budget...
...curriculum in a school of that kind...will be as varied, rich and fluid as life itself. The problem will be how to provide opportunities for ever-increasing richness of experience. The school will be a place where boys and girls will reconstruct their experience in a boys' and girls' world. In this way they will be able to experience the sheer joy of living...