Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...
Winter Bound. The Provincetown Players in a clumsy drama about two women who coop themselves in a farmhouse, vowing to abjure sex for the winter season. So nebulous is Playwright Thomas Herbert Dickinson, onetime English professor (University of Wisconsin), that you cannot be sure whether or not he is describing a modern Lesbos...
...love with a race-track tout. The wandering story is handled in the superficial awkward way common to films in which the plot is merely a series of hooks for hanging up songs and dances. It is unfortunate under the circumstances that Colleen Moore has little singing voice and cannot dance. A typical Irish-American girl, spontaneous and convincing in parts that are natural to her, she is clearly uncomfortable in Footlights and Fools. Silliest shot: Miss Moore coming down into the audience to hug a tired business...
...James Rowland Angell believes he has the sanest group of students in the world. That is because Yale was the first university to hire a staff psychiatrist. When a Yale man shows abnormality President Angell sends him to that psychiatrist, at present Dr. Clements Collard Fry. If Dr. Fry cannot straighten the student out, the boy is expelled. Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one. So President Angell boasted at the 20th anniversary dinner of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...
...Take it From Me," one must give all columnists "An Even Break." Whether you are "In Broken Fields" or not, travelling "Down the Line" invariably brings you to "Lining Them Up." But whoever has been courageous enough to get this far cannot avoid that bottom-of-the-column feeling...