Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dream of Love has what millions of cinema fans want-a beautiful heroine (Joan Crawford) and a handsome hero (Nils Asther) making love in a romantic setting (the mythical Kingdom of Kuremme). The spirit and most of the best lines are inspired by the "legit" play, The Command to Love. A little wittier than most dramas of a prince wavering between a throne and an actress, Dream of Love leans heavily on the sex appeal of Actress Crawford, called "Venus of Hollywood." After each new film Miss Crawford receives ardent letters from thousands of high-school and college boys...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
Indescribable was the confusion. When William Crawford rang the final gong at 3 o'clock, few traders heard it. Exhausted brokers knew it had been a record day, climaxing a record week. They knew they would work all night and all Sunday to catch up. Somehow, the Exchange had managed to turn over 6,641,250 shares of stock in Manhattan's wildest day of speculation...
Moving pictures of the football games this fall will follow short talks by R.H. Crawford '29, E.L. Farrell, coach of the University track team and Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...being the doubtful points R. H. O'Connell '30 is practically sure to start at one end, but the other berth is being disputed by F. A. Pickard '29 and J. G. Douglas '30. Either one may get the call Saturday. A rumor around Soldiers Field insists that George Crawford ocC will be directing the eleven when it faces the Red and Blue, but the chances are equally good that Coach Horween may send in E. T. Putnam '30 whose stellar work was so effective against Lehigh last Saturday...