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...attend uninteresting lectures or those which do not add to their knowledge of their field or their better appreciation of life and learning in general. So many a gentleman long sure of an audience now remarks empty seats and wonders if this child, the tutorial system, is to fatten upon his heritage...
...Wisdom Tooth. Some people say that the soft brilliance of this play has not been equaled on our stage this season. Others that the play is thick spun and quietly uninteresting. These latter are right, according to their lights, and that is why the cinema and Michael Arlen fatten and flourish. The Wisdom Tooth is probably for a few people. These few will go over and over again, perhaps introducing certain of their dependable friends. Then, if they can sell the balcony seats somehow, the piece will...
Accused. David Belasco's second production is a sound and courtly contribution to the season's more serious drama - as far a cry from the tawdry Ladies of the Evening, which he did last year to fatten his purse, as can be easily imagined...
Most university presidents, secure in the cloistral detachment of their office, let their dignity fatten in silence, and save their wind for civic holidays, feasts of the church and times of national disaster. Magazine editors, moved by a similar but perhaps sincerer humility, often preserve the newspaper tradition of anonymity. But when a man achieves great eminence he shatters these conventions even as a growing lad might burst by stout activity the short breeches that fitted him so well a year before. So it is with Glenn Frank, onetime editor of the Century, newly chosen president of the University...
...industry. Sales of radio sets and parts have increased from $2,000,000 in 1920 to $400,000,000 in 1924, and the "saturation point" is still apparently far away. The radio industry appeals to the average American's imagination, and how far it will fatten his pocketbook remains to be seen...