Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three theme songs, a tenor voice, tap-dancing, and a few memorable bodies, do little to justify the publicity bought for this picture before its openings everywhere, publicity of a frenzied quality rare even in these days when a smoke of expensive adjectives issues in advance from every cinematic fire, however small. Now and then, as one member (Bessie Love) of a team of vaudeville sisters, in love with her partner's fiance (Charles King),makes theatrical and eventually frustrated gestures toward self-sacrifice, you see how Director Beaumont has tried casually and hastily to achieve the authenticity...
Einstein's World. The first philosophical explanation of the world was by Thales (7th & 6th centuries, B. C.), Greek philosopher. He reasoned that all things were made of various combinations of earth, air, water and fire. Compared to modern natural philosophy, Thales was simply saying that a small man was rapidly walking down a broad street...
...highly spiced article of sure-fire appeal to a public which wants its college atmosphere belching fire and brimstone," say the Crimson editorial columns. Quite right; but Mr. Roberts' genial resume of Harvard life can hardly be at the same time "a shower of garbage loosed upon innocent victims." Nor is it exactly "lurid," nor yet a "diabolically clever masterpiece of caricature...
Insurance. The Firemen's Insurance Co. of Newark, one of the world's largest fire and casualty insurance companies, last week consolidated with Commercial Casualty Insurance Co. of Newark, on a basis of ten shares of Firemen's for nine shares of Commercial Casualty. Capital of the merged companies will total...
...freaks, and many a Bearded Lady and Human Skeleton vacationed during the winter in elegant quarters on the Millers' luxurious ranch at Marland, Okla. But it was essentially a Wild West Show, with buffaloes and cattle, cow-men and cowgirls, pistols and scalping knives, and the sure-fire big scene of the Attack on the Stage Coach, with round-eyed, heart-pounding spectators writhing on the edges of pine-board seats...