When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

He made only four more films for Mutual over the next ten months of 1917 — Easy Street, The Cure, The Immigrant and The Adventurer.

* From 1917 to 1918, silent film actor Billy West made more than 20 films as a comedian precisely imitating Chaplin's tramp character, makeup and costume.

In April 1917, when German U-boats were sinking many British ships with torpedoes, the marine artist Norman Wilkinson devised dazzle camouflage, which paradoxically made ships more visible but harder to target.

Definitions of the niche date back to 1917, but G. Evelyn Hutchinson made conceptual advances in 1957 by introducing a widely adopted definition: " the set of biotic and abiotic conditions in which a species is able to persist and maintain stable population sizes.

In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.

Between 1917 and 1918, they made contracts with Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the first million-dollar deals in the history of film.

In hindsight the events of 1917, starting with the February Revolution, have often been seen simply as precursors of inevitable civil war, but in fact the opposing political factions had made many attempts of their own to create a new order and prevent disintegration among the Finns.

In 1914 – 1917 many Methodist ministers made strong pleas for world peace.

Puerto Ricans " were collectively made U. S. citizens " in 1917 as a result of the Jones-Shafroth Act.

In 1917 " Puerto Ricans were collectively made U. S. citizens " via the Jones Act via the Jones-Shafroth Act.

The indirect reason was that the government, in order to finance the war, had been printing off millions of rouble notes, and by 1917 inflation had made prices increase up to four times what they had been in 1914.

In September 1917, U. S. Department of Justice agents made simultaneous raids on forty-eight IWW meeting halls across the country.

His first abstract works were made in 1917.

The Original Dixieland Jass Band ( ODJB ) were a New Orleans, Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917.

In 1917, the band made the first appearance of a jazz band in a motion picture, a silent movie entitled, The Good for Nothing ( 1917 ), directed by Carlyle Blackwell, who also played the lead role as Jack Burkshaw.

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia continued missionary work outside Russia after the 1917 Russian Revolution, resulting in the establishment of many new dioceses in the diaspora, from which numerous converts have been made in Eastern Europe, North America and Oceania.

A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.

A young German Sommekämpfer in 1916On 24 February 1917, the German army made the strategic scorched earth withdrawal ( Operation Alberich ) from the Somme battlefield to the Siegfriedstellung ( Hindenburg Line ), thereby shortening the front line they had to occupy.

The 1917 Code of Canon Law, which abolished all ecclesiastical penalties not mentioned in the Code itself ( canon 6 ), made " anathema " synonymous with " excommunication " ( canon 2257 ).

In the year 1914 there were only 2 trucks made, type T 14 / 40 HP, however by the 1915 end the production jumped to the total of 105 TL-2 units and the following year 1916 the numbers rose to total of 196 TL-2 and 30 TL-4 truthe time peaked in 1917 with 19 TL-2 and 303 TL-4 models, after that production declined and the similar amount of vehicles of one type manufactured in a year was not achieved or surpassed until 1936 with the T 27 model.

Coupled with the observations and suggestions made by Currie in the report he submitted in January 1917 following the Verdun lectures, the Canadian Corps instilled the tactical change with vigour.

The reference to drugs seen in the prison sequence is somewhat daring for the time ( since the production code, established in 1930, forbade the depiction of illegal drug use in films ); Chaplin had made drug references before in one of his most famous short films, Easy Street, released in 1917.

So the revolution of our own day can do nothing better than parody, in turn, the October Revolution of 1917 and the civil war of 1918-1920, with its ' class line ,' its Bolshevik Party, its ' proletarian dictatorship ,' its puritanical morality, and even its slogan, ' soviet power '".

Louÿs went on to publish Les Aventures du roi Pausole ( The Adventures of King Pausolus ) in 1901, Pervigilium Mortis in 1916, both of them libertine compositions, and Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( written in 1917, published posthumously and anonymously in 1927 ), a parody whose obscenity is almost unparalleled even in the long history of French clandestine publishing.

An early example is in Maurice Tourneur's The Pride of the Clan ( 1917 ), in which there is a series of shots of waves beating on a rocky shore which are shown when the locale of the story, which is about the harsh lives of fisher folk, is being introduced.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

* The 1917 story " Savonarola " Brown by Max Beerbohm concerns an aspiring playwright, author of an unfinished, unintentionally absurd retelling of the life of Savonarola.

* Maeve Brennan ( 1917 – 1993 ), Irish short story writer and journalist

In 1917 a new two story brick school was built, and later torn down to make room for the O ' Henry School.

Wild and Woolly is a 1917 silent film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy.

* Abel Sánchez ( 1917 ) — a novel that uses the story of Cain and Abel to explore envy.

The film's structure closely follows the 1917 story A Report To An Academy, by the author Franz Kafka, in which an ape addresses a scientific audience, explaining the difficulties he encountered while becoming a man.

In The Tomb, a 1917 short story by H. P.

The story is set in 1917, before and during American involvement in World War I, in the central California coastal towns of Monterey and Salinas.

However, this story is probably true in reference to the 1917 season, when Cicotte won 28 games before being benched.

Ring Lardner has one of his characters attend a performance of Carmen starring Farrar in the short story ' Carmen ' ( Gullible's Travels, 1917 ).

It was based on Maurice Leblanc's novel L ' île aux trente cercueils, directed by Marcel Cravenne and stars Claude Jade as Véronique d ' Hergemont, a female protagonist, who is on the run and on searching for her father and her son, involved in horrible adventures on a terrific island: The story proceeds in 1917.

Miriam Waddington ( née Dworkin, 23 December 1917 – 3 March 2004 ) was a Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.

Poliakoff explores the story of John, his relationship with his family, John's brother, Prince George, the political events going on at the time ( like the fall of the House of Romanov in 1917 ) and the love and devotion shown to him by his nanny, Charlotte Bill ( known as Lalla ), played by Gina McKee.

Tolkien began writing the story that would become " The Fall of Gondolin " in 1917 in an army barracks on the back of a sheet of military marching music.

In 1917 this building was converted for use as a bank, removing the upper story, and applying a neoclassical front on the Superior St facade.

In 1916, he published a play based on the story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer which premiered in 1917 but Feuchtwanter withdrew it a couple years later as he was dissatisfied with it.

His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories ( eight in some editions ) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the one-off title story ( September 1917 ), also called A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes under Reminiscences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Category: 1917 short story collections

His first Hindi story Saut was published in the magazine Saraswati in December 1915, and his first short story collection Sapta Saroj was published in June 1917.

* J. F. Powers ( 1917 – 1999 ), American short story and novel writer

In 1917, an administration building was built on the block east of the temple, to be followed in 1972 by the twenty-eight story LDS Church Office Building, which was, for many years, the tallest building in the state of Utah.