Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shell for those who are interested in such things. Picture the distress of the young lady who, as she makes her first graceful debut down the sliding board, fails to catch the public fancy, and is compelled to sit ignored and unmolested while the balls strike right and left around help. Picture also the situation of her who attracts the admiration of a star pitcher, and must spend her days and nights in sliding down and climbing up again in answer to his call...
England is right. She lacks something and it may well be a Hollywood. Perhaps she will now get proper publicity; perhaps she may rival America as the school for scandal. But she will have hard going--for in the beginning there was Hollywood, and in Hollywood there was revelry...
...Harvard. While Britons grumbled and groused, Director Sir William Beveridge anything but mollified public opinion by admitting frankly that Britain had no suitable candidate. Sir Josiah Stamp, one of the governors, stoutly maintained: "I do not think we could have filled the vacancy any other way. We wanted the right type...
...directorates, he was required to submit to the I.C.C. the names of railroads in which he already is a director. There were 102 railroads in his list. So when the I.C.C. grants his latest request, Mr. Crowley, nicknamed "Pull 80 Cars" for his initials and industry, will have the right to pull wires on the boards of 107 roads...
...study a woman as he studied a man in his ten-volume Jean-Christophe. In Annette and Sylvie (Vol. I), the heroine, Annette, has her illegitimate son by Roger Brissot. In Summer (VoL II) she continues her emotional development, with three men, none of whom is quite the right one. Presumably, happiness awaits her in Vol. IV, now being prepared. Author Rolland, feminist as well as pacifist, is anxious to make Annette self-sufficient, Woman triumphant. With his gathering years, however, his writing shows a less continuous alertness to the boundary which divides emotion from sentimentality...