Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Golfer Jones's father when told his son was coming to the eighteenth with a chance for a 67: "I don't think I'll go out. I wouldn't be able to see anything anyway." Said Bobby Jones on being presented with the medal: "I've never played anywhere where the gallery was so considerate in getting...
...would be foolish to suggest a new election; the students show so little interest in these affairs anyway, that it is doubtful whether such a move would be worth the trouble. It is well, for democracy, that the condition is made public. Next year the election officers may hearken back to an old tradition of allowing active members to be eligible for election, and may also, ineidentally, leave space for signatures, just for democracy...
...translation, three pictures--for the revelation to come. Which revelation consists in the single fact that Maurice Chevalier, playing at the Metropolitan in "The Big Pond", is unaccountably unable to sing. Doubtless, there are many of his minions who will be ready to defend him despite the revelation, but anyway there it is and you can't get around Revelations. Which critical appreciation of Monsieur Chevalier's vocal talents being summarily disposed of, there remains only a bit of a word about the picture...
...having lost his fortune in the War, has become a guide de societe in Venice. Big charming voice--which has already been shown as non-existent, thus reducing the motivating forces of the film ad absurdem--and his just as charming tenderness--which the reviewer doesn't believe in anyway-- wins him (Maurice) an American Heiross which makes a very long sentence. Father of heiress objects to foreign influence, but being a clever old cadger, brings Maurice of America so he may flicker in contrast with the go-getters of this country. Maurice, of course, becomes an outstanding success...
...request citizens had contributed $30,000 to construct at the naval aircraft factory at Philadelphia a racing plane for him to pilot in last year's Schneider cup races in England. The plane. Mercury II, was 880 Ib. overweight, would not fly. He wanted to take it to England anyway, crack it up at the starting line and thus conceal the naval aircraft factory's "bungling construction." For six years the Navy had hampered his speed experiments. When in February he was ordered to sea duty, he resigned from the service in the belief that only in private aviation could...