Word: clevernessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these attempts dishearten. Set the mark higher, and ring the bell. For really, if a man, after three years study, cannot compose a clever theme of five words or less, the critics of higher education are to some extent justified...
...clever inventor came to the U.S. last week with the news that he had found a means of clipping the telephone's claws, of removing one of its most obvious defects. Reporters, with naive excitement heard a description of Inventor J.G. Larsson's device. Its purpose is to write down the telephone messages when the intended recipient does not answer the telephone. Constructed on the principle of a dictaphone, the device establishes a connection after the signal has sounded, then it sounds a signal to indicate that a device, not a person, is ready to receive any desired...
This was when the ugly duchess was journeying to her marriage. Her husband, the Count of Tyrol, was a sulky child; beneath his mean but not repulsive features he concealed a small mind, as ratlike as his face, and as commonplace. The clever duchess favored her husband's page, Chretien de Laferte; but, in a few years, after she had given him castles and wide lands, the page humbled her by marrying Agnes von Flavon whose stupidity Margarete disdained, whose beauty made her furious. The bitter, hideous little woman had Chretien killed; and when the Count of Tyrol invited Agnes...
Immortalized by a great poet, modernized by a clever man, vulgarized by the First National Pictures, Inc., it would be natural to suppose that the old coat could now be no more than a shred of dishonored beauty. This is not accurate. Far from beautiful, seldom even witty, The Private Life of Helen of Troy manages to enrapture most of the people who watch it by its simple and consistent formula. A wisecrack when uttered by a mythical king is ten times funnier than the same wisecrack offered by a drugstore cowboy...
...Morgan, elderly cattleman and father of the hero, Hank Morgan, who is portrayed by Charles Leatherbee '29. Jessica Hill, Radcliffe '30, fills the other juvenile lead, and plays the part of a young school mistress who is wooed by Hank. The part of Sabina Barker, a shrewd and clever woman of the old West is taken by Frances Small, Radcliffe...