Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory, generally despised, that reality has nothing to do with bread and butter, and that if a man calls his house a ship and gets up in the night to reef his unreal sails against a storm he may still be less mad than most men and better off. Such a man was Commodore Trunnion...
Richthofen: The Red Knight of the Air (German). Few stories of the War are better fitted to make a movie than the story of Baron Manfred von Richthofen who shot down more than 80 Allied aviators and was found one day between the hostile lines before Amiens sitting dead in his plane which he had guided to a perfect landing.* The material is still open for treatment as nothing much is done with it in this picture. Instead of using what is really known about Richthofen: his innate love of the chase, his early cavalry training, his duel with...
...this is no sign of fundamental joy. For the story tells you that he has betrayed her with comely Anita Page, who elegantly pantomimes a girl's first inchoate raptures. And Joan has flirted dangerously with a young diplomat for purposes of getting her husband a better job. All might have been well had not the husband's indiscretions suddenly taken an obstetrical turn. Hearing this, his wife has nothing to do but go to Paris for a divorce. There she conveniently meets the diplomat. The picture has all the proper- ties of its predecessor, but lacks...
...Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great...
Unlike that more ebullient, cosmopolitan journalist, William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, Publisher-Senator Capper confines his interest to Kansas. Last week he editorialized: "I pledge for myself and The Capital at least another half-century's wholehearted devotion to the task of making Topeka a greater and better city; Kansas a more prosperous and happier State...