Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the same music, the same words, but with true DeMillian touch, the characters have changed. The prince, in his emaculate uniform, the princess, in her satin slippers and glittering evening gown, and others in like garb, have replaced the ragged horde that formerly stumbled along the narrow tow-path...
...Especially noticeable is De Mille's over-emphasis of symbolisms. It is all right to show occasional close-ups of isolated parts of the body. But one does become tired of hundreds of feet devoted to nothing but showing first the wornout boots of the peasants on the tow-path, and later the dainty ankles of the aristocrats in the same position. Then, too, there are endless shots of hands to bring out the contrast between those of the nobility and those of the workers. The face of a clock is shown so often that the sight of it becomes...
...will not send a delegate to the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva, now scheduled for May 18. The statement wandered far afield and declared among other things that the recent League fiasco had led to "a weakening of coherence among Western European powers" which "clears a path for the growing American economic penetration of Europe, after which American political penetration is but a step...
There have been in many quarters forbidding rumblings among members of another Harvard generation who protested that they did not raise their boys to take a Ph.D. not even to enter upon the thorny path that leads to one. Unhappy casualties of the last two years have been attributed to this new, impossible standard. Providing that there be no unexpected relapses in the future, the statistics of the present Sophomore class ought to lay such bugbears forever. Cortainly the record reads plainly enough. The present exactions are not too severe. And more severe exactions, whenever they may come, probably will...
...behavior are utterly foreign to the amateur spirit which they profess to represent. For since a man who engages in sport purely for recreation is under obligations to no one it is difficult to understand why any organization should feel called upon to restrict his activities on the cindor path. Yet, by raising the cry of keeping amateur sport uncontaminated this is precisely what the A. A. U., the Western Conference, and similar federations have presumed to do. That actual professionalism flourishes unrebuked even under the most virtuous of these organizations, however, is by no means a secret. And amateur...