Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screen. Actress Claire plays with a deftness perfected during the weeks when she was doing The Awful Truth on Broadway. Denouement: the husband learns the awful truth of the intrigue of which he has suspected his wife, and which, of course, was not an intrigue at all. Best shot: showing the use that can be made of a pass...
...this film about a whimsical mechanic's love life, the background is sketchily and conventionally treated. William Haines capitalizes his famed insouciance to the point of insufferability. Proving at the denouement that he is a good chap after all, he sacrifices the race to his pal, Ernest Torrence, best ac tor in the cast. Best shot: a car turning over on the track...
Perhaps his best-known work is "America Comes of Age," but his other writings, "England of Today," "Democracy in New Zealand," "Canada--the Two Races," "Political Picture of Western France under the Third Republic," and "Two Months in America on the Eve of the War" have created considerable interest...
...Atlantic Monthly quoted elsewhere in this issue of the CRIMSON, W. I. Nichols '26 follows the source of the trouble back to the families of the student and holds them to account for forcing their sons to go to college without considering whether they may not have special talents best developed in another...
...that appreciate the true values lying beneath the chaos that prevails in China today. But with transportation and communication as far developed as they are now this Westernization cannot be long delayed, and it may be consoling to the friends of China that it may turn out for the best. For the Golden Age of the Empire is a thing of the past and if the country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture has to offer, it can only be by learning the methods by which it has been built up. China...