Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College Men Poor Actors...
...Beautiful City. Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish are a remarkably popular couple, and this picture will probably be ap- proved. Mr. Barthelmess plays a poor flower vender in Manhattan- which is the beautiful city. He goes to jail to shield his larcenous brother. Miss Gish is an Irish girl. You can fit in the rest of the pieces yourself...
There, likewise, he goes carousing with city friends as he has with country friends. Again he is in the country, married to Jean, neglecting his farm for song, woman and drink, as poor as ever. Finally he gives up to go to Dumfries as an excise officer...
...Howard Spencer, who owned three fourths of the "Press," was a very fine man, and that the "Press" should be expanded. Mort Crane could not think in that way. So there was a parting of their ways, which turned out to be a good thing for Mort and a poor thing for Alice, for she found that Howard Spencer was not all she desired. Mort found another woman, who was all he desired, and that is how he and Alice came in the end to be reconciled. Presumably they did live happily?not that the currency of their love ever...
Everything depends upon the professor. His lectures may mean all that is here attributed to the lecture system at its best. Again, his lectures may be poor, perfunctory things, uninspired by philosophy and criticism, and hence lacking that necessary connection with the problems of life which marks the great difference between vital knowledge and statistics. When the latter is true, the fault lies with the man, not the system...