Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Walsh's revision was to rob Milton T. Everhart, son-in-law of Albert Bacon Fall, of the excuse upon which he escaped testifying in the Fall-Sinclair oil lease trials. If immune to prosecution for anything he did more than three years ago, Mr. Everhart cannot again plead fear of selfincrimination; must tell about some suspicious Liberty Bonds he handled in 1922 during the transaction of the Messrs. Fall & Sinclair. Last week's developments in the Fall-Sinclair case amounted only to taking testimony on the jury-tampering charges against Harry Ford Sinclair...
...ways that Trotsky and 100 lesser great men must be left behind? ", Ihe matter is clear when two facts are remembered: Trotsky represents the doctrine that the Soviet state must never cease to promote "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat, because, until that Revolution comes, Russia herself cannot attain a state of "pure" Lenin Communism, due to the machinations of non-Communist powers; 2) Stalin, on the other hand, holds that the Soviet state must temporarily cease to foment "World Revolution," in order to gain strength from friendly commerce with the non-Communist powers, and finally, when strong enough...
...college he soon loses any uncouth and ridiculous characteristics which he may possess and begins to conform to the collegiate prototype which, though nonexistent, is easily recognisable. Not so when he enters Oxford. Buoyed up by the feeling that he has already made a success of himself, he cannot easily forgive the apathy which British Oxonians feel towards him. This is at the source of an annoyance, to which there are many tributaries. In some cases the annoyance dries up. In others it may flood into a letter, such as that of an "American Oxonian" which was recently published...
...loves is the niece of the man who is cutting down his father's trees, Bryce Cardigan (Milton Sills) staggers, twisting his face with the effort of carrying too much drama for any three cinemas. Doris Kenyon, as the girl he loves, though nice to look at, cannot give him much help...
...cannot but regret that the producers were not content with this much. To weave an elaborate plot and a large measure of what passes for "heart interest" into a spectacular subject of this sort does not help the picture, but destroys its balance. "Wings" is a picture that is well worth seeing, but one is sorry that the excellent material of it is highly diluted...