Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delayed long enough to make it vocal. The best singing is done in a prolog, related to the text only by its tunes, in which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut...
...waiting for him. Assumption College was M. Claudel's chief host, but Assumption College under the Massachusetts laws can only give a B. A. degree. An ambassador should certainly be honored with not less than an LL.D. So Clark University, which is also in Worcester, was glad to help Assumption, give the degree, share the day's festivities.* Assumption College is perhaps the tiniest and purest center of classicism in the U. S. Here are taught the Greek of Homer, Plato, Sophocles; the Latin of Virgil, Horace, Augustine; the French of Racine and Bossuet; the English of Shakespeare...
...themselves by aprons of rubber impregnated with lead), they have been chary of X-raying women who might be gravid. It is not always certain that a woman is pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have experimented in this regard on animals and none...
...particular. But the sun shone too brightly and the breeze wafted too softly for such morbid reflections, so that suddenly what with the spring and all there flashed into his mind-one of those inspirations for which the Vagabond is famous-a line of what might, with judicious help of the riming dictionary, be a poem: "If April comes can May be far behind." It had a familiar ring; the vibration, he thought which shivers through all great poetry. But no, its ring was too familiar; he had heard something very much like it before. And then he remembered...
...have seen times when twenty-five dollars would ransom a king, and ten dollars was a fortune, but when Harvard, famed for its indifference and its gray matter, resumes again the antics of its prep school-days, and we cannot help but sigh. --The Radcliffe Daily...