Word: pursuers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beware of Widows (Laura La Plante). Unfunny antics of a lady in love with a heart specialist who is pursued by all ladies. The principal pursuer is a widow with a bevy of husbands in her past. The lady in love breaks up the doctor's marriage and saves him for herself by shooting pearls at the bride, groom and minister from a garter-and-curling-tongs slingshot...
...with. He listens to lectures, absorbs concerts, and delights in the exhibitions of art which frequently claim his attention, but rarely does he step out of the role of listener and onlooker. Lectures without examinations or section meetings engender a feeling of passivity in the most ardent and avid pursuer of learning. Partly to break this habitual receptivity of mood, partly to vary the monotony of merely sitting and listening the Vagabond will attend the discussion of "The solution of factory conflicts by cooperative action" which Mr. Smith is conducting in Social Ethics 9 at 9 o'clock in Emerson...
...history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...
...Manicure Girl. It all simmers down to whether or not you like Bebe Daniels. For, in these days of many cinemas, it is difficult to become burningly excited over the story of a poor girl, her poor but honest lover, her married pursuer. An impression of Manhattan life is offered for one who has never been there. There is some agreeable comedy; chiefly, there is Bebe Daniels...
This colorful impossibility is founded on registration statistics for the College which shows that every one of the "United States" is represented at Cambridge by at least one ambitious pursuer of knowledge and in most cases by a sizable expedition of "chasseurs". Massachusetts of course leads the field with one thousand four hundred and sixty undergraduates enrolled, and the other eastern states follow after, New York with four hundred and sixty-four, Pennsylvania with one hundred and nine, Connecticut with seventy-five, Maine with forty-three. (For further information see the Register...