Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life. Notwithstanding all those provisions, there are students who have difficulties which are not very clear cut and need more attention than many of these officers can give. Brooks House, with the consent of the Dean's Office, has seen fit to create a position which will provide a person who is thoroughly familiar with the University, its officers and aims, who will have the extra "time" to devote to students' problems which other departments and officers lack...
...Menjou) who is trying vainly to get a job in Stokowski's orchestra, Miss Durbin finds her way without pathetic bumbles through some pretty sentimental sequences. She collects an orchestra of 100 out-of-work musicians, friends of her father's, finally prevails on Stokowski himself (in person) to conduct her 100-man orchestra in a grand finale concert...
...life, the Archduke Rudolf was a rake and good amateur naturalist, organized a historical survey of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was rated as a dangerous radical for his anticlerical views. In the person of Charles Boyer he is represented as a handsome neurotic, ridden by court ceremonial, badgered by his father's spies, obstructed from netting the fluttering virginity of a beautiful child Baroness (Danielle Darrieux). Following the type of all well-bred monarchical romances, the Prince enjoys himself most when sharing incognito the simple pleasures of the poor. At the Prater, he spends an idyllic evening...
...betting stories is the late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who is reputed to have wagered that sum on the outcome of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window. By last week it appeared that such stories may soon have a new hero in the person of Owner Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh (pro football) Pirates...
...Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, spoke to a Moose convention in Chicago. Said he: "One of the most significant developments . . . in the last quarter of a century is the apartment house. Few influences make the average person more superficial, nonchalant, and non-social." In Washington, D. C. he lives in a mansion...