Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first automobile cluster quaintly about a gentle love story of the little seamstress and the town dandy. Fine old costumes and deft direction by Sidney Olcott. Betty Bronson plays the little lady with the thimble. Her exceedingly agreeable activities prove that she was no flash in the Peter Pan...
...President of The New York Evening Post, now Professor of Economic History at Harvard; amiable Archibald Cary Coolidge, Editor of Foreign Affairs; Sir Frederick Maurice, equally an author and a soldier; Professor Arnold Toynbee, authority on the Near Eastern question; L. S. Rowe, Director General of the Pan-American Union; Professor Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister of the Irish Free State, and many another...
...plugged songs on tin-pan pianos- those renegade instruments that stay up late, every night, in the back rooms of cafes, in the smoky corners of third-string night clubs, till their keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...
...happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never Was Shown, about a proud but starving cinema hero-the virgin clay of emotion appears exclusively, great lumps of it. In general, Author McNeile's titles are better than his tales...
What is this Institute? It is not known yet. It is not known yet. On July 1, it comes into being for the first time. Two years ago, the Y. M. C. A. conceived the idea, in imitation of the Pan-Pacific Union, a local organization in Hawaii, but turned over the conception to a more general group for execution...