Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding players on the visitor's six. He has an impressive record as a star goalie at Choate School and on amateur hockey club teams. The other members of the club are not so well known since they have but recently replaced some of the better known players on the sextet which has been one of the stars of the Metropolitan League...
...book learning' you would be much more charitable than you now are towards those who are doing the work of educating-the faculty of WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY and the educators that have graduated from this institution...CAN YOU SHOW THAT OUR HILL FARMERS ARE NOT RECEIVING BETTER ATTENTION FROM OUR COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE THAN OTHER SUCH COLLEGES GRANT THEIR FARMER-VOTERS? Please come clean on this; I dare...
...three tears Critic Evans shed were crocodile tears. After all he had kept his job, nay, got a better one. Many of the funnymen who have been engaged the last few years in making Life comical were looking for new markets for their quips and quiddities. Among them was Robert Sherwood himself, who, in addition to reviewing the movies, had been editor of the magazine for four years, associate editor for four years before that...
...mother is kind to him, but she has a little daughter whom he has to quarrel with. The struggle of his loyalty against new conditions becomes a struggle between him and his stepsister. Prose, which is life itself and which can be made out of pictures even better than out of words, is the vehicle of Director Jacques Feyder. He makes as exciting as a melodrama a scene of two children ostracizing another child from a game. Other shots: the feet of farmers under a coffin fumbling on a wooden stairway; a boy who has been punished raving...
...cigarette girl, who has always wanted to be a dancer, crashes through in the final act when the star falls to appear and she's really much better anyway, as we knew she would be. The same young lady is the high light of the evening, being extremely pleasant to look upon and quite in evidence most of the time. She also performs several Spanish dances, clicking castanettes and swinging about in the traditional fashion. If you're an expert on such dances you'll know more about how good they are than...