Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seton, in terms which she is unable to understand, that life for him must be a holiday, that he does not want to grab for money. Only Linda shares his lazy, glamorous ambitions. In the last act, of course, it is Linda with whom Johnny Case prepares to go to Europe...
John Gilbert has been connected with the theatre all his life. With his mother, an actress, he grew up in road-shows, later filled inkwells for a San Francisco rubber company, played in stock and finally in a picture, The Snob. Mary Pickford gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly...
...institution is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Like an industrial agent, it is evaluated in terms of its yield. It deserves and can rightfully claim the .united support of thoughtful citizens on the ground of its educational service. . . . Build the University into the life of the state." That was a parody of Cornell's byword, where President Turner once taught: "Build yourself into Cornell...
Similar "meditation chapels" will be installed as soon as practicable in all other hotels operated by the corporation. Said Mi. Bowman: "The presence of one spot in the hotel, dissociated from the wordly things of life and dedicated to the God we profess to serve, is now recognized as a spiritual necessity...
...grand exalted past master of cartooning. His kicking is what has kept him from enjoying the mass reputation of men like Ding. Briggs, Bud Fisher. Something in Art Young resents contracts, syndication and orders as to what ideas he shall draw. He has free-lanced for 35 years in Life, Puck, Judge, Metropolitan and many another magazine, past and present, rather than earn the "big money" that Arthur Brisbane once told him he deserved as a syndicate artist. It was natural, perhaps. that just after giving this advice, Editor Brisbane haggled with Mr. Young over prices. But it helps explain...