Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels for Oscar Hammerstein and an aluminum fan for Mrs. Astor...
...research." It has consulted 30 college presidents and many another notable?Andrew W. Mellon, Charles E. Hughes, John W. Davis, Elihu Root, Vernon L. Kellogg, Colonel Edward M. House, et al.?and one and all are agreed that time and money should be laid aside to guard and fan sparks of the kind that have lately blazed up into the automobile, airplane and radio. The broadest powers are to be given to an administrating board with Mr. Hoover in the chair. It is impossible to say what may some day result?trips to the moon? Invisibility? Synthetic babies? Immortality...
...following groups failed to receive rooms in the draw: Passionate Shepherds, Dinosaur's Dozen, The Anti-Disestablishment Society, Young Woodley, John J. James, Sextet of Lucia (group of six enclosed in an application of 18), Six Mosquitoes, Aristotle, The Green Fan, Erasmus Scroggs, Browning J. A. V., Lionel Lee, Yan, Albert Seewald, George O. N., Jonson and Boswell, The Nobles, Me, Alfred A. Lunt, John M. Hanoe, Osiris, Wireless Willy, The Skipper, Mayfair, O. Henry (single applicant), Bel Enfant, Alfred Augustus Baker, Los Vaqueros, Watt Hour Meter, Caesar, John X. Stevenson, Jaina Square, Mr. Micawber, The Triple Threat, Charles Hawkins...
Average Movie Fan Fails to Absorb...
...greatest mediums of education. The drama of the screen is viewed by hundreds of millions of people, a very small percentage of whom have developed the powers of absorption. Many moving pictures of today contain a portrayal of life as it is lived. The perception of the average movie fan is not keen enough for these ideas to get across. It is up to the college men to help us get them across...