Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about a wife who deserts a husband, is in turn deserted by a lover, and occupies herself at the conclusion by protecting her daughter from the latter. Miss Busch is better than four out of five who attain stardom. For once she has a chance and a director. This latter, curious to relate, is Robert Z. Leonard, whilom husband of Mae Murray and directorially responsible for many of that lady's worst endeavors on the screen...
Died. Frederick Cocks Hicks, 53, Alien Property Custodian, Eastern Director of the Republican National Committee during the last election, four times Republican Congressman, Quaker, financier; at Washington, of instantaneous collapse while watching the famed magician Howard Thurston perform in a Washington theatre...
...been waiting for Sir Roger to appear. During the course of the trial before Lord Chief Justice Reading,* Mr. Thomson was not only instrumental in securing the conviction and subsequent execution of Sir Roger Casement, but rose to such prominence himself that he was knighted, and then made Director of Intelligence of the British secret service. Since that day he has been a symbol to Britons of the maintenance of law and order at any cost. Ecclesiastics have pointed with pride to the fact that he is the son of the late Archbishop of York...
...debate which has been worded. "Resolved. That the Amateur Law be enforced in all intercollegiate athletic competitions", has been arranged. The affirmative will be upheld by Major J. L. Griffith, director of the Western Conference, who has been one of the fore most opponents to undergraduates leaving colleges for professional ranks in the Middle West...
Major F. W. Moore '92, Graduate Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association and member of the Council of the convening body, will represent Harvard, together with Henry Pennypacker '88, Chairman of the Committee on Athletics, Dr. Alfred Worcester '78, Professor of Hygiene, and Mr. Daniel J. Kelly, Assistant Director of Physical Education. The last two will represent the University at the meeting of the Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges. Other organizations which will hold separate meetings during the Conference are the American Student Health Association, and the National Amateur Athletic Federation...