Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift of several hundred thousand dollars were hovering on the horizon's edge, might not this sum be better diverted to the interests of science, or architecture, or, in short, to some field more dependent upon the purse of the University than...
...current offering at the Metropolitan, "The Love Doctor", is neither worse nor better than the ordinary run of Met pictures which is the same as saying that it provides mild entertainment of a very agreeable sort. Richard Dix as the hero, let it be said at once, is not half as bad as he can be, and in fact usually...
...rest of the production, "Shanghai Jesters" it, too, is very typical of the Met. Dancing, singing, attempts at humor are all present. And as usual there is one extremely good vaudeville act. This time it is a barrel juggling stunt which would be better if it were alloted more time and space...
...have a grave suspicion that the Rev. William S. Blackshear has somewhat mistaken his job and function. Seemingly he has begun to assume that he is chairman of the Com mittee on Admissions and that the Lord's house which he tends is one of the better country clubs. . . . There is no record that Jesus Christ ever said, 'Love thy Nordic neighbor as thyself,' or 'Suffer little Caucasian children to come unto...
...Boston audiences" continued Mlle. Keila, "like jugglers. I am not a juggler." She expressed relief that in two weeks the show was to move to Spring-field, which, it was understood, though better than Boston, was still within the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...