Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sole diversions open to the entertainment seeker are the movies and those sacred institutions of the drama which clutter up Scoolay Square. Such diversions are amusing but they cannot quite fill every requirement. If the playhouses must be quiescent at some time during the year there would appear, at least to the student, to be no better time than the Midyear period. Then he could devote undivided attention to his books, safe in the knowledge that Tremont Street was but an echoing lane and that dust lay an inch thick on Harpo's harp...
...Either Sharkey or myself will meet Tunney next fall, that's a cinch", said Maloney. "I don't want to appear boastful, but I can't see any other way out of it." In connection with his last remark, he hurriedly added that he thought modesty was as necessary as any other quality in a prizefighter's makeup. "As soon as you get to thinking you're invincible you're bound to let up and then you're done in this game...
...ventilating system, upon which the whole success of the tubes depended. Result: complete success. The fumes did not spread more than 50 feet; were swept out of the tunnel in less than two minutes. . . . The problem of ventilating 9,250-foot tubes was more complicated than it would appear. Blowing fresh air in at one end and sucking it out at the other was pronounced impossible. It would take too long to clear the foul end in the event of a conflagration, and the percentage of carbon monoxide at the foul end would endanger life even under normal tunnel conditions...
...Fatty" (Roscoe Conkling) Arbuckle, onetime cinema comedian, signed two contracts last week- to appear in vaudeville on the Pantages Circuit;* and to act in a series of films made in Germany. He expects to earn $2,500,000 in five years. Since the orgiastic, accidental death of one Virginia Rappe in 1921 no U. S. producer has dared risk the national opprobrium against "Fatty" Arbuckle. Last week he looked both doleful and healthy...
Concerning this amazing character, Philip Guedalla has apparently learned all that a brilliant bio-romancer can learn. U. S. readers will not object if Author Guedalla's treatment of political problems is so trifling as to make him appear lazy when he is not facetious...