Word: making
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hughes and was U. S. Ambassador to Belgium before stepping down to ministerial grade to accept the more important post at Ottawa. Deeply concerned was President Hoover at the way seasoned and experienced men are dropping out of the U. S. foreign service, apparently disappointed at their failure to make better progress...
President Hoover last week had a chance to compare himself with Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both those great men were mentioned in an open letter to the White House from long-nosed William Randolph Hearst, who said he wanted President Hoover to make ''some reassuring utterance" at this time of "sudden and unjustifiable collapse of (stock) values." He said...
Then there is the college-musical or "Good News" type of film, of which "Sweetie"--where the action, as a matter of fact, takes place in a prep school, though the films have little interest in the difference--is considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson...
...course, simple enough to make fun of the cinema magnates for their insistence on backstage and pseudo-collegiate subject matter, but it is totally unfair not to realize that there is much to be said on their side. The filmgoers have demonstrated with some conclusiveness that they want frequent musical numbers in their pictures, yet with equal certainty they have shown that they want the songs to be embedded in the plot with some show of realism. A stage musical comedy can interrupt the story with a song cue and introduce, with no apologies at all, tenors, sopranos and dancing...
...number of mechanical devices have been installed to make the library more efficient. In rooms containing rare books and fine bindings, the humidity and temperature will be controlled to prevent deterioration; in other portions of the building there will be forced ventilation. To expedite the delivery of books to readers, pneumatic tubes and conveyors have been installed...