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Word: gooding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictures now on view at the University Theatre are distinctly above average, especially for these parts. "The Wind" with Lillian Gish as the little girl buffeted by the breezes is a rather good film of the melodramatic sort. Die Gish shows that even if Dorothy has abandoned her for the stage, she can still do a good job on the screen. Her portrayal in this picture of the windy West is as good as any she has done in quite some time...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...would be aroused in the country today if President Lowell should announce his adherence to communism. For the Baptists were the Bolsheviks of that era; their wild orgies at Nunster, and the attempt of John of Leyden to overturn the State, were known to everyone. Just so today many good people see a necessary connection between denying infant baptism and destroying the basis of society. Of course the assumption that Henry Dunster would follow after John of Leyden was just as absurd as the assumption held by many loyal Harvard graduates, that liberal professors were in league with Moscow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First President of Harvard Gives College Longevity | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...current at the time had been served with a finality that would leave everyone happy. But unfortunately the Serbs, who happened to find themselves the uppermost of the three in the person of the king, have had so much trouble convincing the other members to the agreement of their good fortune that it has just been found necessary to declare a dictatorship, and dispense with parliamentary forms entirely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN NEW DISGUISE | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...expense is little more than that which is incurred on a theatre party at a good musical comedy followed by a little dancing at one of the better night-clubs. As for the homogeneity--the Business School has dances under the auspices of the Gaydon Club which are generally very well attended and otherwise successful. Yet, obviously, these men have no more--probably less, in fact--to hold them together than do the members of the Junior Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...remained aloft. The crew could not be daunted, even though motors should strain and fouled spark plugs almost force a landing. "Only Elijah," It has been opportunely stated, "has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark." And in commenting upon this, a secretary of aviation has added, "Good, let's trim Elijah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN MIRACLES | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

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