Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those for whom the words "every character speaks" constitute an advertisement, "The Dummy", feature picture at the Metropolitan this week, will probably be pretty tiresome for you. It opens up the practically untouched field of child kidnapping. The estranged parents are brought together when little Mickey Bennett rescues their fair-haired daughter, letting himself be kidnapped as the deaf and dumb son of a millionaire...
...President Coolidge signed a Congressional resolution authorizing some future President to invite foreign nations to exhibit at a Chicago World's Fair in 1933-provided there is one. After its costly experience with Philadelphia's Sesqui-Centennial in 1926, the U. S. attached strings: Chicago must show $5,000,000 as a cash guarantee before the invitations go out; the U. S. Treasury is to be put to not a penny's expense...
...eyes? Yes, she does make goo-goo eyes. Is she smuggling diamonds? Yes, she's smuggling diamonds. Three or four years ago a film photographed, acted, plotted as effectively as this would have been called, inaccurately, a masterpiece. Audiences who saw it last week thought it was a fair program picture. Best shot: the little stoker (Clyde Cook) playing the accordion...
...After John Harvard has had 293 years of varying success, six weeks of apple sauce bid fair to leave him with nothing but a pair of pants and a coat of copper nitrate. And now that tradition has been blackjacked and thrown into a corner, these innovators are licensed to peddle their synthetic culture to the universities, colleges and preparatory schools...
...lead in this field and with the current discussion of state institutions, brought to a head by Little's resignation from the presidency of Michigan University, some action which will raise the entrance requirements of state universities is highly probable in the future. In any case it seems hardly fair to criticise the business man for taking a college degree as representing a standard of intelligence above the average. The question is more one which demands action from our educator more than from the general public...