Word: adee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Coach Cowles, this shot can be pulled off by the best player only two out of five times, but Glidden can work the shot four out of five tries. The ball hits a ade wall, then the front wall, and finally the other side wall, falling dead on the corner...
...charms are not completely stifled thereby. If one's mood is unusually bland, he might possibly be amused by the antics of Frank McHugh. And the dance accompanying 'Collegiana," the main song, is weirder than truckin' and divertingly original. But the plot, adapted from a story by George Ade, is weaker than most in which Miss Ellis has appeared, and nobody in the show, least of all Miss Ellis, knows the rudiments of acting. Our parting advice is not to worry about missing "Freshman Love...
...about all. The regents of the Bank of France, potent oligarchs of orthodox finance, soon took Governor Tannery into camp, assisted in maneuvering M. Flandin out of the Premiership, and substituted for credit-loosening and pump-priming during the eight month Premiership of Pierre Laval a comforting façade of French Treasury orthodoxy behind which burgeoned the deficits from which France has been unable to escape since...
...first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting line." Many...
Great spotlights tickled the sky over Hollywood one night last week. Raspberry floodlights bathed the south side, chartreuse beams the façade, of a building near Hollywood Boulevard whose fluted white front bore the architectural devices of Greece, the French Empire, the U. S. Cinema. Under a marquee passed film folk and thousands of others who had been summoned with great powder-blue and orange cellophane invitations to attend the opening of "the world's greatest cosmetics factory"-the new $600,000 studio of Max Factor. Pudgy, 61-year-old Max Factor has been a cosmetician since...