Word: points
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the research point of view, complete family conditions, both past and present are being tabulated. In the medical examination, information is obtained regarding the mother's health during pregnancy, and as detailed an account as possible of her diet during that period is made. The rate of development of the child and the diseases he has experienced are recorded. The story of the nursing diet of the child is obtained, and the diet and habits subsequent are recorded as a means of determining the adequacy of the nutritional elements present. The physical examination gives information on the state...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Automobile racing at Indianapolis is a background unfamiliar and colorful enough to make any sort of picture entertaining in spots. In this film about a whimsical mechanic's love life, the background is sketchily and conventionally treated. William Haines capitalizes his famed insouciance to the point of insufferability. Proving at the denouement that he is a good chap after all, he sacrifices the race to his pal, Ernest Torrence, best ac tor in the cast. Best shot: a car turning over on the track...
...Delaware & Hudson, a railroad only 884 miles long, has been said to run from "nowhere to nowhere." This jibe does injustice to Wilkes-Barre and Montreal, but nevertheless it had point last week when D. & H.'s shaggy bearded chief, Leonor Fresnel Loree, popped out with a proposal that the D. & H. should be given practically all the railroads of New England and a long list of others, six of which are bigger and longer than the nowhere-to-nowhere...
...distorted through the agent of a curious sensational press into an object of ridicule for which the unfortunate chance remark of President Angell can not be held solely responsible. This journalistic white lie evokes the unintelligent indignation of prattling flappers where a more fortunate representation might have conveyed a point of view that in its larger aspects can hardly be said to be unintelligent...
...nothing new to point out the high price of fame and the high cost of being or doing anything the least bit out of the beaten path. For a long while, persons in one breath have pitied the great and the queer, and in the next have asked for more and more details...