Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a half-hour, out hustled Ambassador Dawes. He flung a few words to the newsmen: "I found King George delightful. I do not know what the usual ceremony is. I merely presented my credentials and stopped at his invitation for a chat. His Majesty was looking very well...
...Studio Murder Mystery (Paramount). You know the leading man is going to be murdered because each member of the cast has a good reason for killing him and because you have read the title. This part of the picture is nicely constructed and told with some good shots of a Hollywood studio?the only ones that have come along for quite a while. When the actor is found dead on Stage Ten you stay to find out who killed him? his wife, his director, the nightwatchman's daughter, or her brother, or the nightwatchman, or the fellow...
From Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, the delegates received little hope of a Methodist union. Said the Bishop: "I don't know as we of the South could join a church union which did not teach a judgment to come and punishment for sin. I am not narrow and bigoted, and if the other fellow can get along without these beliefs it is all right with me. What I say is give me the fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have...
...know how "assistants" are chosen, so I cannot offer any remedy for the system, but I can say that an assistant's position should not be the means of any graduate student working his way through for a Ph.D., nor should it be a position for any man who happens to want it who can flash a Phi Beta Kappa key. One does not have to be a scholar to be a teacher...
...this organization has continued on the ancient theory that what was good enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us. The present result of this policy has without question left the Phi Beta Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying to offer in the way of an education will know where to direct his smile when he sees a man stride across the platform to receive his degree with a summa or a high magna but looks in vain...