Word: foresight
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Wall Street (Columbia). Spectators who wonder whether the timeliness of this film's background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally interesting but familiar and clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window...
...down their necks, must have felt that some simpler way of applying for football tickets might be devised. And it is not probable that their feelings would be much altered by the confusion and delay of the ticket office, which is hardly preferable to the weather outside. Granted that foresight would have brought them to the ticket office earlier in the week, human nature dictates that the vast majority will always put the matter off until the last minute...
...mention the most important glass bulb without which the incandescent lamp would be impossible. The credit for the development of producing these bulbs on the scale required today belongs to the Corning Glass Works, and no small share of it to Ambassador Houghton* and his associates, who had the foresight and imagination to spend a fortune on the development of machines that would blow these bulbs, and on glass research, so that these machines could be worked. The earliest lamp bulbs were blown from glass tubing, which resulted in varying sizes. As soon as the demand increased, it was quite...
...study can accomplish more than any number of meetings of peace societies in which outlawry of war is discussed. It is to be hoped that with the increasing amount of attention that is being given to international relations there will be a greater number of people with sufficient foresight to continue this work which the late Mr. Holtzer has so admirably assisted...
Finally, those who chose well their courses will soon reap the profits of their foresight, for after another seven days comes the last appearance this year of that popular favorite Reading Period. Whatever that may mean to the individual, the Vagabond hopes it concords with his own pious wish that even if there are thirty-one days in May, it can't produce as much rain as April did with only thirty...