Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inaugural address. And it will be a crusty gentleman indeed who cannot smile at the "Whispering Campaign" or "The Little White House in the East." It will be an even blinder" one who cannot find the connection between the figure of New York's first famous citizen and the face of her latest, so ably combined on the cover. The parody of Kipling's "If" is one of the best pieces of satire that has appeared in Lampy since, well, since the last campaign perhaps. The designer of the page or trench coats, has learned his lesson well from Punch...
...Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying to Proserpine through a crack in the floor...
Glad-hand tactics have carried Roy Young far. At 18 he was a messenger boy in the Marquette (Mich.) bank. At 37 he was head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the youngest governor in the system. Every U. S. banking tycoon knows and likes his pleasant, florid face, his easy, vigorous anecdotes. He is now 46, a satisfied, successful Scotchman...
...protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James Hall and the subtitles make the breezy gob almost true...
...face of the success of touch football there still stands a not inconsiderable impediment. One is not allowed to play touch football at Holders Field on the day when touch football was made to be played-Sunday. Touch football is probably invulnerable to formalization; its innocence defies every attack. Nevertheless, it can very quickly stop being a glad game if it has to be bootlegged to the far corners of Cambridge. There seems no reason why the University playing field should not be available on Sunday, whose afternoon has become the single free time for many who spend the playtime...