Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heart of a Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings...
...crying need" or "shameful scandal" is discovered, the nation's legislators (especially in the Senate) go through motions which notify the coun- try that (though the matter may be handled by one of the 79 committees which Congress keeps standing for all purposes) the treatment will not be mere routine efficiency but something extra-special and significant indeed. Sometimes, if a sufficiently potent Inquisitor insists, an extra-special committee is appointed...
...undue undulation, a French girl who dances in a Moroccan port-town public house. Behind her, one catches a glimpse of the entire U. S. Navy, but especially of one roustabout bluejacket to whom Actor George O'Brien has given his first name and a good characterization. A mere word, spoken in jest by this gay and murderous tar, persuades the dancing girl to visit Manhattan, where she is last seen, in the midst of her loose and double jointed motions. She has already performed matrimony on the sailor...
...concession to the importance of teaching, of inspirational contact between instructor and student, in undergraduate work, but before the system can achieve any true educational success the constraining of feet of the divisional examinations must be removed. With them constantly in sight, literature becomes for teacher and taught a mere field of cut and dried grain that must be hastily gathered in before the storm. It is unappetizing but necessary fodder--not a thing of beauty, allve, and to be enjoyed for its own sake...
...that eminence-and it is still high- Cincinnati has drooped, malnourished industrially. She has become draggled and dirty.* The bright ornaments that are her hospitals and colleges have only accentuated her drabness. The new union station is to be another ornament. The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful. With the new railroad tracks for freight and passenger terminals she plans to stitch together an up-to-date industrial dress, to become again in fact the Queen City of the West. Other U. S. cities have their soubriquets -descriptive, fanciful, hopeful. Some of them...