Word: directionable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To college which are embarrassed by the necessity of sorting out the increasing number of applicants for admission the Law School practice suggests a sound direction of policy.
Divorced. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, hirsute & dynamic impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company of Manhattan; by Frances Alda, famed Metropolitan soprano, on the ground of incompatibility, in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. "We are the best of friends," stated Soprano Alda, "and I shall continue happily at the Metropolitan under his direction."
It is to be hoped that this exhibition of collegiatism will not go unheeded by the group of anglo-philes who point to the Oxford system as the acme of suavity, good manners, cultivation, and what you have not. The fog of rumour which floats over from across the Atlantic...
In between times, a Publix melange of girls and nonsense titled "Bubbles" beguiles the audience. The girls, however, slip up in their routine dances now and then, one of them actually took a heavy fall, and the song and patter men act somewhat nonplussed at being on the big time...
Having surveyed this experiment calmly, it can be seen that its radicalism is not as extreme as the first reports seemed to signify; and perhaps its lack of sheer radicalism will prove to be the most valuable element in giving it impetus and in sustaining it until its adaption to...