Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mitzi is a delightful comedienne who does not scruple to resort to horse-play in order to win a laugh. The secret of her buffoonery is the art of contrast...
...outstanding but little heard of contributions to improving conditions in the Philippine Islands was the establishing of the Baguio Boys' School at Baguio, a summer resort high in the mountains north of Manila. This school was established about 1907, if I remember correctly, and the first headmaster was Dr. Remsen B. Ogilby, now president of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. At the time this school was established, educational facilities in the Islands were practically nil for American youngsters whose parents were in the Islands for military or commercial reasons. At that time, I remember going to a Catholic school...
...Richard Barthelmess (Weary River), one Frank Withers; for Louise Brooks (The Canary Murder Case), one Margaret Livingston. ¶ In Beverly Hills Mabel Normand, sick with tuberculosis, was not told, for fear that she would worry, that her husband, Lew Cody, was also ill. In a San Bernardino health resort Cody, in bed with a nervous breakdown following influenza, was kept ignorant, for a similar reason, that there was anything the matter with his wife...
...Okanogan Indians now presents for the first time to the Supreme Court. The issue thus raised has aroused interest rather from its novelty than from its intrinsic importance. A practice sanctioned by more than a century of usage now awaits authoritative interpretation by the court of last resort. If this is not enough to explain the CRIMSON's interest in the subject, then perhaps judicial cognizance might be taken of the fact that aspirants for editorial advancement are prone to secure copy by means of appeals to instructors' professional interests...
...feet five inches tall is a certain grave, punctilious gentleman who was lolling at full length, one evening last week, in an aisle seat of a theatre at Cannes, smartest resort on the French Riviera...