Word: mated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sitting Pretty. A musical comedy by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern. Its chief concern is to rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from...
After Mr. H. L. Mencken and G.B.S. have explained carefully and occasionally in words of one syllable exactly how great is the triumph of the bachelor, the discovery of one who believes that single blessedness is due to the inability of the man to win a mate is a distinct shock. The suggestion of match making instruction at a male college in the light of modern knowledge is "refreshingly naive" even as such a suggestion for a female college would be incredibly ridiculous. The indomitable ninety-seven deserve to be Chronicled in song and story as "Harvard...
...woke up one morning and found the whole side of his face paralyzed, and doctors were unable to assign any particular cause for it. In six weeks under Mr. Neudorf the action of the facial muscles was entirely restored. Another man who had been fencing with his room-mate was pierced through the eye by the point of a foil, and although the sight was not impaired, his entire left side was paralyzed. Leaving college for the year, he placed himself in charge of Mr. Neudorf when he returned the following September, and finally succeeded in having...
...poor land and the fertile land is treated alike--the unproductive is labored over with the same industry as the productive with the resulting waste and inefficiency which might be expected. The English college, on the other hand, limits no man's opportunity by the stupidity of his class-mate. The best men are permitted and assisted to reach their greatest possible development; the less capable are allowed to enjoy several years of agreeable companionship and congenial study without the continual harassing of hour examinations, lectures, tests and what not. The individual seeks his level...
...Mary and Douglas Pickford," as Fairbanks described himself and play- mate, are arranging for the showing of their new pictures, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Mary and The Thief of Bagdad by Doug. Soon they depart for England to add a little excitement to the life of Edward of Wales...