Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which like its wares. Were it for its beautiful girls alone it would be played before capacity audiences. While Ziegfeld has his production on a higher plane of humor he certainly will have to look to the laurels of his "glorified" girls. After all, why are the "Follies" so popular if not because of its feminine attractions...
Charles Townsend Copeland has been one of those rare scholars who have truly appraised the personal relation between teacher and pupil. He relied more on direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence...
Student agitation has now exceeded all normal bounds and the mass meeting stage is reached. After numerous suggestions and petitions have been over ridden, the most beautiful, the most popular, the most industrious of all Bryn Mawr May Day Queens is privileged to sit down in a chair for which honor no one will deny she has walked enough...
...imposing New York Giants thus shed a player who ranks in popular imagination with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, the late Christy Mathewson. Manhattan, irate, demanded reasons. The Giants management sat silent...
Anyone who has not seen "Old Ironsides", now playing at popular prices at the Metropolitan, has a treat in store which even the propinquity of a dreaded examination cannot, mitigate. Besides the great patriotic strain which runs throughout the plot, the vivid historical background, the nautical realism, there are five individual dramatic performances which transcend almost any recent histrionic portrayals of the cinema. Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston perform beautifully together; Wallace Beery and George Bancroft make the screen's best comic pair; and Johnny Walker as Decatur is a gallant and heroic figure. Of course, the "Constitution...