Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going on was when the proctor at the Psychochemistry X exam noticed that there was one more man in the room than was enrolled in the course. Suspicious of some plot on the part of one of his rivals in the phlegtobotany department, he watched for an unfamiliar face as the students came up to leave their books. Just as the throng about the desk was greatest, he caught a glimpse of the strange face. It was only a glimpse, and before he could say a word it was lost in the crowd...
...severe arched windows it resembles a Spanish mission. Two days after Christmas Father Thomas Kearney was roused from his early morning slumber by a wild-eyed townsman who talked of visions. Together they went and stood before the church. On the door shimmered a soft image. A tender, shadowy face, slender hands and billowy robes were suggested in mottled luminescence. At dawn it disappeared. Thereafter the image appeared at twilight, continued through the night. Hundreds heard about it. came to see for themselves. Cripples and weazened ancients were among them. Some said it was the Blessed Virgin, others that...
Leroy S. Buffington, in 1830, was a young Minneapolis architect with an idea. He had conceived a building which he called a "cloud scraper." Simple was the construction principle ? a steel skeleton with a shelf at each floor to hold the sur face masonry. He took out patents on it. Since then, almost every skyscraper in the world has been built on Mr. Buffington's principle. Last week, Architect Buffington, 89, received a check for $2,250 as royalties on the construction on the 25-story Rand Building, in Minneapolis. It was the first time, despite eleven infringement suits...
...Awakening. Vilma Banky, without Ronald Colman, but helped by good photography and Louis Wolheim's battered face, makes fairly acceptable a story based on suspected, but not real unchastity, with a happy ending made possible by the self-sacrifice of a villain...
...Budapest. The people she worked for didn't want her to meet Goldwyn and kept her out of his way. He was about to get on a train when her manager ran up, seized the magnate's arm, urged him back to where the actress, her beautiful face expressing suspense, was standing in the drafty waiting-room. In Hollywood, Miss Banky played first with Ronald Colman, then with Rudolph Valentino, then again with Colman, always with Colman so that her "public" was shocked and even lessened when, a year and a half ago, in the most pompous...