Word: curing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sofa or the back seat if the safety of the roads is to be preserved, in the opinion of Dr. Harry R. de Silva. He has recently joined the staff to the University Bureau for Street Traffic Research and will direct a year's study on the cause and cure of accidents from the viewpoint of the individual driver...
Scolding Yale alumni for the goal post riot which followed the last Yale-Princeton football game, Yale's President James Rowland Angell declaimed: "There will be no general, much less complete, cure until our American college groups, both graduate and undergraduate, come to realize that bad manners and poor sportsmanship are the marks of the mucker. . .." Honest President Angell stopped, reflected. "I have a piece of a goal post myself," he confessed, then quickly weaseled: "It was presented to me, however...
...ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight Champion "Speed"' MacFarland. Acclaimed for the knockout, Burleigh is urged by MacFarland's manager (Adolphe Menjou) to try prizefighting professionally. He accepts, to raise money to help cure Agnes, his ailing milkwagon horse. The story that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner...
...INFLUENCE OF WOMEN - AND ITS CURE - John Erskine - Bobbs-Merrill ($1.50). A wisecracking college professor's saline solution to the feminine problem...
This problem cries for attention. Education at Harvard loses an astounding and lamentable percentage of effectiveness through an omission which, unlike most difficulties in education, permits of an obvious cure. Responsibility for correction rests squarely with the faculty...