Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average undergraduate has a very real interest in his courses, at least in those he has been allowed to select for himself, and is well read in and opinionated on questions of the moment. He can and does discuss artistic and intellectual matters without being labeled an esthete...
...this reason that we have thought it wise to suggest, though it is not actually demanded, to contestants that they select us their subject some phase of that life with which they are actually in contact at the time of writing rather than a topic, however great its possibilities, which is totally unrelated to college atmosphere...
...Cheyney is suddenly discovered in society after a somewhat mysterious widowhood in far Australia. Two eligible lords promptly propose marriage, and are somewhat nonplused to find that she is a pearl-thief masked by a shrewd overlay of charm and manner. She repents in time, of course, to select the more attractive of her noble suitors...
...report, that the best way to learn facts is to listen to a statement of them while one is asleep. It is given as proof that a Terre Haute mechanic with only the most rudimentary education has, by clamping radio phones to his ears, learned the binomial theorem, select passages from American history, some irregular French verbs, and yards upon yards of poetry all while he was fast asleep...
Proud Heart. Rudolph Schildkraut, immensely gifted actor from the Continent, makes in this picture his first conspicuous appearance in the films. Universal has supplied for him a melodrama of the Bowery in which his two sons select the widely varying careers of law and prizefighting. It is a pretty good play made extraordinarily effective by the acting of the star...