Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jose R. Capablanca, onetime world champion, is perhaps most logical of players. He never takes chances, is better at match play than in tournament. He holds a somewhat honorary position in the Cuban diplomatic corps, and is an expert at bridge. His well grounded confidence has frequently been mistaken for conceit...
...bonds. To be sure, there is nothing to prevent Benjamin Winter, Inc., from doing such financing without any exchange. But with 250 potent real estate houses all offering stocks, bonds and other securities in a recognized exchange devoted exclusively to realtors, the market for Winter securities would be better than if the financing was undertaken as an isolated effort. Furthermore, the Exchange will guarantee the validity of the securities listed, will appraise property values, investigate financial conditions in the companies offering securities, and provide the investor with reliable and impartial information on his prospective investments...
Russia supplied another outstanding realtor in Irwin S. Chanin, better half of Chanin Bros., though Henry I. Chanin is also able, active. Mr. Chanin was born in the U. S. of Russian parents who, however, took him back to Russia, then brought him back again, this time no more to roam. His father was a painter-plasterer in Brooklyn. Irwin also painted, plastered by day, went to Cooper Institute by night, won a prize for designing a bridge and got an engineering job in subway construction. During the War he helped build speedily erected laboratories for making poison...
...Single Standard (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo usually manages to make her roles real no matter how badly written they are. This story about a fashionable woman who insists on the right to make her own mistakes is better than most of such stories. The idea out of which grow its romantic, typically cinematic situations is also the basis of a moment of drama. Greta Garbo has had a love-affair with her chauffeur who committed suicide because he was afraid of spoiling her life. Then she runs away with a painter and has a fine time sailing around...
...roped them together with a story. The anecdote they devised is a silly one about two men who were racing to see which of them could get up Matterhorn first, and how one suspected the other of wanting his wife. Hollywood scenarists could have got out something much better, but no Hollywood company has taken bet ter mountain-scenes than these. No miniature-sets and no doubles are used. You see the actors swinging over precipices thou sands of feet high, hooking spiked shoes into glassy walls. Best shot: Peter Voss getting...