Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary Dugan isn't what one would call a nice girl, but there's reason in her badness, and despite a shady reputation in matters pertaining to sex, she's not half so wicked as the district attorney would like to make the jury believe. She has no witnesses, however, and her case begins to look extremely dark when her impetuous young brother, an embryonic lawyer, messes things up worse by objecting to the methods of her counsel. From this point on the story resolves itself into a series of detective masterpieces manoeuvered by this young brother which gradually bring...
...cavorting about the stage, not to mention George Sand fainting and a rather picturesque but wholly unconvincing ending to the whole, strikes a false note. Perhaps, if one could look upon the production as purely imaginary, if one could forget the historical and musical associations which the dramatis personae call up, the enjoyment of the audience might be greater...
Senior room applications closed last night and the drawings will be announced tomorrow in the CRIMSON. The Committee will hold office hours in the Lampoon Building from 2 to 4 o'clock, when chairmen should call for assignment cards for their respective groups...
...president of the New York Academy of Medicine and hence a quasi-national personage, Dr. John Augustus Hartwell last week assumed boldness and denounced the profession's chronic evil- fee-splitting. The practice of medicine has become so complex that the general practitioner must usually call in a specialist for many services which formerly he did himself. The patient pays two fees, usually (in Manhattan and other large communities) $10 to the family doctor, $35 to the specialist. And usually the specialist secretly rebates a few dollars to the small doctor who called him into consultation. Fee-splitting...
...Rico. From that point a tangential trip was made to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Governor Waldo E. Evans played host. Bewailed was the lack of famed Virgin Island rum, but St. Thomas is U. S. territory. Back in San Juan, Publisher Patterson and Daughter Alicia paid a call on Governor Horace M. Towner, who still hears hurricanes in his ears. During the following evening some gasoline floating on the harbour water exploded. Engineer Sutter was blown off the nose of the Liberty. Radioman Roe came hurtling out of the cabin saloon. Dexterously swimming and fire-extinguishing, they saved...