Word: invention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every good college has its Grand Old Man, its patriarch. So necessary is he as an object of veneration, as an oracle, as a figure about whom to swap reunion anecdotes, that if a college did not have a patriarch it would soon invent one. Last week, having reached the halfway mark on a world cruise, Yale's Grand Old Man -President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley-died in Kobe, Japan. With Chauncey Mitchell Depew two years in his grave, with William Howard Taft dead two days later, the end of President Emeritus Hadley left Yale for the present without...
Hence Bartholomew Josiah Palmer restricted himself last week to advising his colleagues, colloquially, on how to boost their business, which seems generally in a poor way. One way was to use a diagnostic machine, a "neurocalometer," which he helped to invent. The chiropractor is to apply this apparatus to his patient's spine. It is supposed to indicate how poorly "nerve impulses" are flowing and thus to indicate where the chiropractor should lay his hands. Exhorted Dr. Palmer, characteristically: "You want to step up your results. I know you do, and it's only right you should...
...there, wait discovery by the law?Good personified by beautiful innocent Barbara Stanwyck, Evil by the bullet-riddled body of saturnine Rod La Rocque. There is really nothing the matter with The Locked Door except that it is very old. Its antiquity has stimulated Director George Fitzmaurice to invent, by way of disguise, some effective modern sets. Best shot: the floating cabaret outside the twelve-mile limit, peopled by police spies and surrounded by well-drilled policemen in speedboats...
Take, for example, the argument about what constitutes an amateur. For fifty years various official bodies have been trying to invent an automatic and foolproof definition of amateurism. They have not only failed to invent one which is not readily broken in the spirit, however much it may be observed in the letter, but the failure has produced a widespread feeling that the ideal of amateurism is foolish, highbrow and snobbish. The reason for this is plain. An amateur is usually defined as a man who does not compete for money and does not practice athletics...
College boys frequently swear off smoking and drinking for indefinite periods, invent elaborate forfeits for backsliding. Generals of Armies, Presidents of Republics are seldom so ingenuous. Not so President of Mexico Emilio Fortes Gil and General Pedro J. Almada, Chief of Military Operations in the State of Puebla...