Word: label
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...label on the bottle was marked "Cyanide," but despite the forty-minute tie-up, the speaker predicted an overwhelming majority in the event the prisoner was released on bail. There was no insurance...
...Democratic ticket is a cause of questioning. Charles W. Bryan is the unknown quantity. He wears the progressive label. He has been doing the things in the Middle West that progressives admire. The country is frankly puzzled about this mixed team. Its inconsistency opens it to attack...
Between Worlds is another German film (notwithstanding its "European" label). It is not as good as Dr. Caligari, having a more amphorus texture, more turgid symbolism, more labored scenic effort for sensation. Even so, it leaves the mass of present-day American films far, far behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this...
Although it is a mistake to label Premier Ramsay MacDonald "leader of the Labor Party," it has for some time been clear that his authority is being more and more recognized and appreciated by the rank and file of the Labor Party. Precisely how satisfied the rank and file are with Premier MacDonald is disputatious. But it cannot be truthfully denied that he rebuts radicalism with rationalism and thereby exercises a moderating influence on the hotheads whose political precepts are too often governed by erroneous reasoning and illogical prejudices...
...advancing to 40% at $500,000 (Senate), or beginning with 1½ on $10,000 and advancing to 37½% at $200,000 (House). On the settlement of this difference, slight though it is, will largely depend the question of whether the bill will bear a Democratic or Republican label...