Word: kindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollywood producing companies print or develop their own films. They have such work done by the Consolidated laboratory, biggest company of its kind in the U. S. In bottle-like glass cases, side-by-side on long shelves resembling wine racks, the rolls of celluloid are kept like vintages. Some of those in the burned building were unreduplicable parts of pictures now in production-the whole negative of Jazz Heaven, two days work on Dance Hall, the complete negative of The Vagabond Lover (starring girl-crazing Rudy Vallee) and Night Parade. Every existing negative of Douglas Fairbanks' and Mary...
...lowest of human beings. Each figure has his partner, Death, the meagre spectre who leads the dance, shaking his remembering hour glass. The old peet, Lydgate, who flourished in the year 1430, translated a poem on the subject, from the French verses which attended a painting of the same kind, about St. Innocent's cloister, at Paris. The original verses were made by Machaber, a German, in his own language. This shows the antiquity of the subject, and the origin of the hint from which Holbein executed his famous painting at Basil...
Direction of the Harvard Botanic Garden, possibly the oldest institution of its kind in the United States, has been transferred to the Department of Botany, according to an official statement of President Lowell given out yesterday at University Hall...
...Edinburgh Review was the first magazine of its kind in the United Kingdom. Punster Sydney Smith, its first editor, aimed "to erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and a purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics." The Review was originally Whig; its cover, buff and blue, always proclaimed its old faith...
...hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through the curtains. A few seconds later she popped her head out again and emitted a high, piercing, utterly irrelevant note. Amazed, the audience applauded this unique effort as if it had been a complete and flawless song. Critics were kind, blamed only young Emma's sponsors for permitting such a premature appearance...