Word: chaplinitis
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...chapel service for Armistice Day has been arranged by the Shannon Post of the American Legion with the co-operation of the Harvard Memorial Society. The Reverend Kenneth Caldwell MacArthur '05 of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Chaplin of the Shannon Post, will have charge of the Service, to which all members of the University and the public are invited...
...Frank W. Harding at first described the shotgun man as smooth shaven, but later used numerous words to describe the overgrown Charley Chaplin moustache of the same...
Pussyfoot Johnson's eye may not make England dry by 1930, as the prohibition workers boast, but it has certainly given John Bull something to think about. American actors and comedians have long been popular in Europe-everyone in France worships at Charlie Chaplin's altar-but we doubt the amount of applause that will greet Mr. Johnson's tour of the British Isles in the leading role of Claire Briggs's "Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life...
...ways of national politics are amusing, and the antics of kinglets and kinglings more droll than those of Chaplin, primarily, no doubt, because they take themselves so very seriously. It is noteworthy now that Germany is spiritually shedding large tears over this ruthlessness to "a brave little people." Germany has had so much to do with brave little peoples in the past three years that she may pass as a judge. Her sympathies, it must be admitted, have been for Finland, Ireland, and Greece. She has seen with no overburdening woe the desolation by brand and steel of Serbia...
...entirely to preparation for conflict. Great nations cannot live by war alone. The European people have already discovered that truth, and as many as possible are striving to keep alive some shadow of their former gaiety. It is only an apparent paradox that the sight of a movie of Chaplin the night before going into battle may make brave soldiers fight yet more bravely...