Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sensitive and excellent direction by E. A. Dupont, of Variety fame, titling in the manner of the early Griffith period, photography that wraps around Vienna a mist of adventure and half-remembered sorrow-these are the assets of Love Me and the World Is Mine. Its fault is too much facial contortion from pretty Mary Philbin and stalwart Norman Kerry, who otherwise adequately play the leads...
...first issue under its new staff the Lampoon is fortunate in having a strong subject for its theme. The Messers. Blackburn and Company have sunk their teeth into this morsel with appetites appropriate to their journalistic age. The Reading Period is past, but the clouds have not disappeared over the horizon, and the Lampoon staff is concerned with some of the results...
...drawing on page 20 reveals some of the difficulties involved in the production of the Decameron. The whole Boccacio household is pressed into service to find some dirt for the use of the head of the family. We are not told what connection this has with the Reading Period, but the inference is obvious...
...following year was more or less of a transitional period for the University track team and while its results were barren in the way of victories, the foundation for great teams was being laid. On December 1, 1923, nearly 100 track men crowded the Varsity Club to hear W. J. Bingham '16 make his last speech as head track coach. "In the last two years," he said, "we have learned many things--first and foremost, that in order to assure the success of a track team it is necessary to develop not stars but a large body of runners, taking...
...most decisive proof that we have had thus far as to the success of the Reading Period comes in a statement from R. B. Little, barber at the Harvard Union, that dandruff has increased considerably since Christmas, compared with former years. Little's reasons for the fact are as follows. "The students were inside more and got less exercise, therefore the scalp dried up. Then, they neglected their hair to a great extent, being more interested in their studies than in outside engagements. And, of course, when more blood went to the brain, less went to the scalp. Anyhow...