Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support his contentions, the writer cited cases of: a vice admiral now commanding one light cruiser and six destroyers; a rear admiral now commanding four fuel, supply and repair ships and five tugs; 24 officers attached to the faculty of the Naval Medical School, where 16 officers were under instruction...
...then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story is spread thin-being nothing more unusual than the one about the princeling who went to college and fell in love with the barmaid. But the beer-quaffing, the jolly good...
...over-dose of over-emphasis; illusions concerning the importance of football games have been partially removed and the result is that the logical attitude towards the game--that of sanity, that which minimizes both defeats and victories--is once more practicable. Saturday afternoons are seen in a more normal light: as occasions possibly, certainly not as epics...
Jones, a fast but very light quarter back, who has hitherto been obscured in scrub ranks is as yet very much of a dark horse. It seems doubtful, however, that he will be able to supplant his heavier and more experienced rivals. Brown, an end of experience and known worth, was shifted to quarter last week. He has shown up well in his few appearances in that position so far, but has too recently changed over to give any certain indications of his future development--By TIME...
First editions of Tennyson's "Poem of Two Brothers" and his Holy Grail", and the corrected proof of the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington" are to be shown. A first edition of the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" is included in the exhibition...