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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate last week found itself pitted against the U. S. Press in a bad-blood fight...
...appeal chiefly to people who have read the story. The brightly colored insubstantial characters?the disordered old Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died; Manuel, infatuated with La Perichole (Lily Damita); Uncle Pio (Ernest Torrence), dismissed at last by the girl he has made famous?come to life in an imaginary country filled with splendid metaphors. Director Charles Brabin has translated these metaphors into concrete objects...
Champion Smith had found on the St. Cloud course, just outside of Paris, what golfers call their "element." The Smith golf is highly stylized, has mostly been played on the hard, fast fairways of Missouri and California. Golfer Smith's two feet and the head of his club, when it touches the ground, nearly always form that invisible equilateral triangle so exuberantly eulogized in golf textbooks. During the recent European venture of U. S. professional golfers, he has been the direct antithesis of erratic unorthodox Leo Harley Diegel. On the careless hillocks and ridges of Muirfield and Moortown where...
Radcliffe profited greatly from Dean Briggs's administration, as it had profited from Mrs. Agassiz's services. Dean Briggs's permanent values to the college were also clearly marked. He fused a loose student sentiment into great loyalty: he found ways to enlarge the curriculum, and he had a large share in bringing Radcliffe's resources to a little more than $4,000,000 in 1923. Under his guidance Radcliffe adhered to the policy of counting only Harvard courses toward the A.B. degree, and it shared in Harvard's decision to preserve certain courses as graduate in character...
...Colonel has not yet found the way to control the independence of the press. Were he to advertise his name, or his business, he could handle recalcitrant editors with ease...