Word: closes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English High School of Boston, will preside, Professor C. F. Taeusch of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration will discuss "Ethics and Business". A. V. Shaw of the firm of Shaw, Loomis, and Sayles, Investment Counsel, will speak on "The Teacher's Personal Investment Problem." At the close of the second address, there will be an opportunity for discussion of both these papers...
...thing that is puzzling about the Hound and Horn in general is the diversity of the types of its contents. There seems to be no close relationship between "Anne Garner" or Mr. Bandler's conventional and scholarly essay on W. C. Brownell and the "new art" as represented by a photograph of the roof of Memorial Hall and Mr. Fitts undercoded poem about a synagogue. As a review it is neither a Fortnightly or a transition, but something of both. A definite editorial policy could not do any great harm and it would assure readers in sympathy with that policy...
Consolidation. Dry organizations therefore marched forward to take up front-rank positions about the White House, close to Mr. Hoover's blue serge shoulder. Last week in Philadelphia the executive committee of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, after sending an emissary to Washington, joined its Department of Moral Welfare with 30 other temperance organizations "for a unified plan for observance of the 18th Amendment, in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover." The Anti-Saloon League was included in this Presbyterian announcement and the Presbyterians made it sound as though the political stigma that...
...silver screen" it falls lamentably short. In the whole picture there are really only two changes of scene, which is even less than one has on the stage. All sense of tempo, a quality which has been highly developed lately, is completely lost due to the necessity for close-ups as the characters speak. And the last and worst sin in this production is an illogical plot which must be obvious to even the least critical person...
...criticisms the acting is good, the voices are well handled, and through a long succession of obvious clinches, apes, lunatics, sliding bolts, and levers that drop floors into underground rivers, one gets a decided feeling of mystery which is well built up until the complete let down at the close...