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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fine Human Document" quotes Mr. Coolidge as saying to him: "Whenever a problem comes before me the first thing I say to myself is, 'Isn't there someone who can do that as well as I can?' and you would be surprised how often I find someone else can do it better. That saves me for the problems which only I can decide." F. L. LANE

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...them in an envelope and took them home. Some of her pictures: The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Heart of the Hills, Pollyanna, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Tess of the Storm Country, Little Annie Roomy, My Best Girl. Syncopation (Radio-Keith-Orpheum). By this time even rural communities must find the separation, due to a third party's intrigue, of a team-of dancing partners, a story that can he interesting only for its digressions. In this first picture made by a new and technically competent producing company, the digressions are brightly filled with shadows borrowed from vaudeville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...minds of those of us who are left to stumble on the law wherever we can find it according to the "system", certain constantly recurring doubts very early crystallize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plaintiff | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

Only too often does the Vagabond find it difficult to augment his hasty morning perusal of the daily newspapers with lectures on subjects which attempt at a comprehensive view of some development of contemporary history. Professor Karpovich's lecture on "Bolshevism" at 10 o'clock this morning in Sever 20 offers one of the few opportunities of this kind which occur during the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

Hardly a day goes by that one is not forcibly made aware of what these men have been doing for the sweetest of the arts; and even in the black of night the cloistered scholar may awake to find the strains of music penetrating the former fastness of the Yard. How unbecoming then to impute motives other than the keenest interest in making sport to the promoters of the present music marathon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HIGHER THE FEWER | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

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