Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Crimson assumes no responsibility for the sentiments expressed by correspondents, and reserves the right to exclude any communication whose publication may for any reason seem undesirable. Except by special arrangement, communications cannot be published anonymously...
...here. . . . Oh yes, just a word about "The Red Kimono". It is a sermon by Mrs. Wallace Reid on the life of the streetwalker and its attendant evils. Being a bit irrelevant as far as we were concerned, it didn't get a very vital grip on our interest, except as it distressed whatever feelings we have for art in the movies...
Since it is Probable that few Senators "attend chapel", one could hardly, except one were a mid-Victorian Methodist, wax earnest over the matter. Yet the protests suggest an analogy to a retort that President Tyler once occasioned after the death of President Harrison had raised him to the office. He was about to purchase a used carriage when, seriously or no, he turned to his negro servant and asked, "Jim, do you think it's all right for a President to buy a second hand carriage?" The answer was, "Well boss, you'se a second hand President...
...wealthy brother. He gets $1,500 yearly for devising the "daily dozen" phonograph records; the money educates two girls. The royalties of his 20 books, from his many surgical inventions, the fees from some 15,000 surgical operations and 277,000 patients in the sanitarium, all his income except a bare living have gone to support his lifelong doctrine of "not doctoring, not surgery, but education." He supports the Race Betterment Foundation, of which he is founder and president; the Battle Creek College which he created out of his sanitarium dietetic and nursing classes...
...predominate. Nine tenths of the show is typical revue vaudeville, exceedingly well dressed at times and conscientiously undressed at others. Broad farce and slim figures alternate. The U. S. contributions are as usual and a little better than usual. About the French there is not much to report except that Yvonne George sings her songs. Mlle. George is to many people the greatest European revue and cabaret artist, only excepting Raquel Meller. To miss her is to miss one of the most, if not the most, extraordinary experience to be had at any revue this season...