Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gaudy contrivance made of bright new sheet tin, wooden mouldings colored bright red and black and a strip of compressed cork. It looked like a modernistic candy counter, except that a long piece of pipe went with...
There is little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...
From Columbia's muliebral Barnard College last fortnight issued the annual report of famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time...
...voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly and gloomily, making you feel the knot in the head of the man who could talk in any voice except his own. Director James Cruze, however, seemed convinced that he was directing a story about show business. Before long he neglected the ventriloquist to supply atmosphere in the form of chorus girls dancing, getting dressed, chattering, rehearsing. Best shot: the Great Gabbo going crazy because he cannot be himself...
Study cards of new Freshmen must be filed at C University Hall before 5 o'clock this evening, while all students in Harvard College, except new Freshmen, must hand in their cards at C University Hall not later than 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...