Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those cinema colleges without buildings or curriculum, but this time composed strangely of youths who do not smoke or drink and who expel a fraternity brother as soon as they find a girl in his room. One Eddie Quillan uses trite situations for purposes of comedy. Between arid stretches, two sequences are fairly funny-the college play, when he has to let his worst enemy make love to him, and the football game which he wins by tackling a teammate who is running the wrong way. Sally O'Neil is in the cast. She does fairly well...
...gentle husband, Peregrine, Patrick escapes to the Midlands there to conduct relief among striking miners-and seduce their handsomest daughter, Martha. In a feverish vision Ann realizes what has happened, pines for Patrick. The horse-faced woman snaps at the situation, meat for malicious machinations, invites Patrick and Ann arid Martha to her Mediterranean castle. For seven days the mistral blows them all madly sane. Martha pitches herself over a cliff into a raging forest-fire; Ann returns wanly to Peregrine...
...Ohio's arid Cooper said: "I regret I must break on this question with my very good friend Dr. McBride. . . . God has given me a conscience and I must follow its dictates...
...season of the Spring Proms reaches its climax, and in colleges all over the country tuxedoes are being resurrected and weather prophesies anxiously scanned. Tonight comes the Freshman Jubilee, the one great social function of the first year men and the last oasis before plunging into the expansive and arid regions of final exams. The Red Book has appeared and as ever outgoes its predecessors in all important points, the last lecture of History 1 has ended with vociferous applause, and all that remains in to fulfill the social amenities...
...Story. There was no story, and that was Adrienne's trouble. Suppressed by a middle-class father concerned only that the arid monotony of his existence, be undisturbed, guarded by her sickly sister, the village spinster who envied youth and health and beauty, Adrienne was starved for drama. She could but set the stage-parlor furniture to dust in the morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer...