Word: heading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president. It never regretted its choice. It liked witty, tolerant William Allan Neilson so well that when he retired last June it asked him to help choose his own successor. Last week Dr. Neilson and Smith's trustees together picked another British-born scholar to head the college: Herbert John Davis, a native of Northamptonshire, now chairman of the English department at Cornell...
...been caught. On the first day of last week's meet, however, there was a kill-only 35 minutes after the hare had been "viewed away." First of the spectator field in at the kill was Mrs. Hoffman Nickerson, who was awarded the cherished mask (hare's head). Although the subsequent hunts led to no more kills, at the hunt breakfast in Millbrook's Red Pheasant Inn, the Buckram and Reddington followers agreed it had been a red-letter meet...
...whole picture revealed the famed British director's old mastery of cunning camera, sly humor, shrewd suspense. But Charles Laughton's impersonation of a Nero-like Cornish squire who is the paranoiac brain behind a gang of land pirates was magnificent in the eye-rolling, head-cocking, lip-pursing, massively mincing Laughton style...
...Russia: "A giant with the head of a newt...
...made credible by Maugham's professional slickness, Christmas Holiday describes the shattering Paris holiday of a safe-&-sane young Englishman. Shatterers are a strip-tease pick up, who tells him about her marriage to a man who murdered for sport; a boyhood friend who is grooming himself to head the OGPU of a future Communist England...