Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the summer and over winter weekends she leaves this apartment in which her staff can account for her actions and whereabouts during each minute of the day and goes to her Connecticut farmhouse, isolated on a bad road branching off other bad roads. Often she drives there speedily, expertly in her blue Studebaker. In Connecticut she turns herself over to her caretaking couple, her gardens, her guitar. There she entertains her closest friends?Elsie Janis, Ethel Barrymore, Clare Eames, Constance Collier, Mrs. Stuart Benson (business manager of the Civic Repertory Theatre), Madame Ouspensky (directrix of the American Laboratory Theatre...
...been kicked out of the worst joint in Shanghai but who pretends to be refined when she meets a handsome gentleman on a train. The gentleman (James Murray) is a crook who has escaped from a Chinese prison. He copies Nolan's respectable front. Even dull directing, bad dialog and indifferent recording fail to blot out something touching and terrible in their momentary romance. Best shot: tea for two in a Chinese private dining room...
Wags. Wall Street has long had its own private store of wisecracks, but not until this year did stockmarket gags glut the revues and become current at U. S. dinner tables. Upon a tense, avid public, the market break released a flood of cracks, good & bad, new & old, clean & smutty. Foreign visitors, expecting a glum, panic-stricken people, were amazed to find a new joke for each new catastrophe. Among cracks more or less good, new, clean...
...Booth had a bad charley horse and could not do himself full justice. I was a bit surprised that the Yale coaches sent him in when they did, inasmuch as McLennan seemed to be getting good work out of the team."-- Lothrop Withington '11, former Harvard captain...
Once again it is rumored that the Yale line will be the deciding factor this afternoon. It's really too bad Harvard men can't seem to master...