Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loves of Casanova (French). Cut from 17 to seven reels, colored by hand, mercilessly expurgated, these episodic reminiscences of an 18th Century confidence-man invoke a dreariness entirely foreign to the life of the central character, but occasionally relieved by witty and good-humored subtitles written in the first person...
"The pretended incomprehensibility of the Einstein theory has been used as capital by professional anti-Einsteinians. These have had a recent recruit in a churchman of prominence, who has made his inability to understand it sufficient cause to utter a warning to the layman not to be misled by such...
THE MERRY HEART−Frank Swinnerton−Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A "promising first novel" is distinctly more the vogue than "another book by. . . ." Frank Swinnerton, long-accepted writer of suave character studies, also wrote a First Novel, and it won him "immediate recognition as a young writer of distinction." Published...
But the time when there will be no intercollegiate athletics is not yet, and the concern of the present is the present system. The ramifications of the various Amateur Athletic Unions have after all accomplished something. The tramp athlete is a character of history; there has been much codification and...
In the spring a young man's fancy...and so forth, while the college newspaper turns to the inevitable parody issue. It makes little difference what the occasion as long as the yellow, pink or green sheet gets off the press with the necessary expose of the college professor, the...