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George, rising, withered Wales with a glance and, in his first public speech in Canada, began forthwith to twit the heir to the British throne...
...British, long deaf to Nationalist complaints against their joyriding over Chinese territory, forthwith cut the railroad line between Shanghai, Hangchow and Ningpo, thus halting the Nationalist retreat from the oncoming Northern army...
Writing in Le Matin, he announced his resignation as a member of the French delegation to the League; and forthwith proceeded to attack its chairman, his onetime chief, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, a statesman who has been ten times Premier of France...
...Reinhardt has taken in too many thousands of dollars in the show business to fall under suspicion as a disgruntled producer turned "arty." He has staged morality plays in gay Vienna in such a way that competing bedroom farces and Parisian revues forthwith perished of box-office anemia. But he realizes (as did Richard Wagner) that there is a distinction between the commercial theatre and the art theatre. Both are forms of entertainment, but one provides the audience effortless amusement; the other demands an audience of willing imagination. Reinhardt has surrendered the masses to the movies and incorporated producers...
Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, sponsor of the Trade Unions Bill, was called during the final debate, "You blackguard! You liar!" by Laborite James Maxton, whom the Speaker forthwith suspended...