Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fatherhood. As girls are schooled for wifehood and motherhood, so let boys be taught home economics and become better husbands, better fathers. So urged Essie L. Elliott, home economist of Los Angeles...
Streets of Sorrow. Here is a German film, about which, in the interests of international good will, the less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever...
...heroine, who sacrifices herself as a night club entertainer. When the manchild, on vacation, discovers the Hot Momma's occupation, he excoriates, then shoots her-although the latter action is represented as accidental. Such violence leads to remorse and eventual reconciliation between widow and mite. The better element in the audience, however, is likely to remain rueful...
...world are meeting at State College, Pa., this month for an Institute of Chemistry held by the American Chemical Society. Sessions began last week with some 200 gentlemen present whose business it is to determine what the world is made of and how it may be put together in better combinations of the ingredients. In Industry. The importance of chemistry in industry is now too obvious to need emphasis, but the delegates took special satisfaction in knowing that the huge U. S. Steel Corp. has lately organized a pure research department "of proper magnitude," with Professor John Johnston (from Yale...
PEOPLE ROUND THE CORNER?Thyra Samter Winslow?Knopf ($2.50). Mrs. Winslow puts together a good deal of formula fiction for the mass magazines. Most self-supporting writing women in Manhattan do the like. They have to. But Mrs. Winslow writes "for herself" as well, a less common practice. The better magazines await this work eagerly. Perhaps soon she will be free to do no other kind. If so, U. S. literature will benefit...