Word: islanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experienced cleanser and quieter of Texas towns is burly, bronzed General Wolters. After the War he took his rangy troopers to Galveston Island, there quelled a festering longshoremen's strike. Later he was sent to oil-booming Mexia (pronounced Mayhea) where bootleggers and guntoters had usurped municipal government. "Mopupus Jake" and his troopers drove the usurpers to the hills, followed them in airplanes, corralled them...
...Aegean wave is Constance Talmadge, but a distracted flippant Venus left over from a past, an extravagantly rococo period of the cinema. Action of this silent picture hinges on a report, visibly confirmed, that Miss Talmadge has entertained a yachting party by riding nude on a surfboard off the island of Cyprus. When the captain of the yacht accidentally kills instead of merely reproving a nasty fellow who made remarks about her, Miss Talmadge discharges him. Later, finding out why he did it, she demonstrates effectively how sorry she feels about her mistake. The direction and acting are no better...
...Close of Southwestern aircraft exposition at Dallas, Tex. Oct. 31-Close of Guggenheim safe aircraft exposition. Nov. 8-10-Intercollegiate aeronautic conference at Columbus, Ohio. Nov. 9-17-Western aircraft show at Los Angeles. Nov. 10-Opening of Hawaiian Airways, Ltd., new inter-island air service. Nov. 11-Dedication of Municipal Airport at Duluth, Minn. Science...
...these are novels; the Merezhkovskian Life of Napoleon, less tightly woven than the author's previous book on the same idol, distinguishes itself from the mass of Napoleonic lives by disclosing a secret. Secret of the Napoleonic will-to-power, reveals Biographer Merezhkovsky, was its isolation, its "islandness." On an island (Corsica) Napoleon was born; on another (St. Helena) he died. Small Napoleon would pull down all his room's shades, pretend he was "away." He retired from battles, not actually, but "in that strange, magnetic sleep. . . ." In his colossal power...
...mace, not so old a custom, the mace having been acquired two years ago. Dr. Barbour and Chancellor Arnold Buffum Chace came next. Close behind was Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for without a Harvard President present, no Brown President has ever taken office. Under the U. S. and Rhode Island flags, further back in the line, strode Governor Norman Stanley Case (Brown 1908) surrounded by his staff. Followed many a statesman, jurist and nearly three-score college presidents. There were Cornell's Farrand, Yale's Angell, Union's Day, Rhode Island's Alger ; also Charles Evans...