Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from a political platform, pawing pretty girls, bouncing drunks from a night club. He is a redheaded Irishman with a chest like an oak, rumpled red hair, cracked knuckles, a throat for pints of whiskey, ears for the rumble of life. His eyes are humorous, quick, lonely. He was born in a slum, educated by existence. Perhaps he is a prison graduate, bitterly "bumped." With slight intelligence but unlimited understanding he has made his way to where you find him with help from no man. He is the dream of all his countrymen when he reaches a high place...
...Born 42 years ago of a Rumanian peasant woman and a Creel smuggler, Panaït Istrati is an unhappy, passionate son of the Balkans with a talent for headlong talespinning that must have come to him from across the Bosporus. He writes out of the life he has led, chiefly here around one Stavro sly peddler of drink at fairs, upon whose sensitive nature, to the point of perversion, have been wreaked the brutal inheritance of an ancient jumble of hot, primitive races Stavro relates the tragedy of his marriage, thwarted by impotence; the kidnaping of his madcap sister...
Bebe Daniels plays the title role, but the title scarcely fits the role. The popular notion of a Campus Flirt, born of the novels of Percy Marks, and Scott Fitzgerald's maunderings upon the younger generation and jelly rolls, demands that a Flirt flirt. By the same token, if Flirt means flirt, Charlie Paddock means run. And except for one long distance shot of "the fastest human" showing his heels to a bunch of girl hurdlers, Paddock did even less running than Bebe did flirting...
...will hand to the University office, personal impressions of their advisees. While this was unlooked for, there need be no fear on the part of freshmen that an ultimate, adverse, or categorical judgment has been rendered. No harm can come of the innovation; and there may come the advantage born of a more complete acquaintance between the University office and members of in this case, the class of 1930 and; in case of profit here, a similarly more complete acquaintance with future classes...
...proper fashion. Furthermore, he will have all the necessary characteristics, as defined by him in his article. He will be "a Harvard graduate", "socially presentable", anyone who has an article in the Transcript is that, and he will be "between thirty and forty years old", since he was born in 1896. Nor will he be "a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller". Mr. Baldwin is evidently an egoist...