Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome Danger (Paramount). Like all Harold Lloyd's comedies, this is built around a character fundamentally sensible and likable but who seems crazy because of some predominant trait or mania. Botany is the current mania and the character is a police chief's son who, asked to help out on the force because the present captain thinks he might be a chip off the old block, gets interested in fingerprints when he finds that they are like leaves- no two alike. Lloyd took six months making Welcome Danger as a silent film, then made it over again putting...
Last February Senator Bingham asked Elijah Kent Hubbard, president of the Connecticut association, for the "loan" of a man to help the State's interests on the tariff bill. Mr. Eyanson was sent to Washington, settling himself in Senator Bingham's office. During the open hearings he sat at the Senator's elbow and whispered questions to be asked witnesses. He prepared press statements for the Senator, supplied him with technical arguments, "ran errands." His assistance to Senator Bingham, who pleaded ignorance of Connecticut's industrial needs, was "invaluable." No Senator except Bing ham knew that...
...Delacroix. Meanwhile her husband rose unsteadily and she had to put down the instrument to help him into an arm chair. The sleepy switchboard boy seemed to take eons to raise the hotel doctor. Before he arrived the heart of Leon Delacroix had stopped...
...like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash yet. I don't see any reason to be hurrying about it anyhow. It ain't going to help me in my work...
...today's CRIMSON appears the comment of a Yale student columnist on the attitude of undergraduates towards music in New Haven. His facts and the conclusions he draws from them are surely significant and could probably be applied to Harvard as well as Yale. An unprejudiced observer could hardly help noticing the interest in music at Harvard as shown by the increasing number of non jazz records bought around the Square, the tremendous overapplication for tickets to the Boston Symphony concerts in Sanders theatre, as well as the number of men taking courses in the music department...