Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swam to the cockpit, helped Lieutenant Balchen extricate himself from the wreckage. Everyone yelled for Bert Acosta-he was not in the cabin-but soon he appeared out of the dark waves. Two days later, a Paris surgeon discovered that Mr. Acosta had a fractured collarbone, the only serious injury of the crash...
...Spanish net star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita de Alvarez came out onto the court in .a brilliant red sweater and turban, took off the sweater, changed the scarlet turban to one of bottle green. If she won the match...
...John Gardner Murray of Maryland, Presiding Bishop, went to Manhattan from the Church Congress in San Francisco, Dr. Silver sent him a letter. It read: "The action of the bishops of the Church in selecting me for the post of bishop of the Missionary District of Wyoming has received serious and prayerful consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories of the nearly 20 years during which I was permitted to live and work among the people of the West, for whom I have a deep affection, and among whom I number many...
...Unknown (Lon Chaney). Although his penchant for weird roles has occasioned many a jest,* audiences are beginning to realize that Lon Chaney stands on a pedestal of Hollywood, the one actor dedicated to the serious grotesque. His most recent incarnation is Alonzo, armless wonder of a traveling circus. In reality a full-bodied man, Alonzo straps himself into deformity in order to conceal from a hounding police that the double-thumbed hand identified with a notorious murder is his own. So accustomed is he to eating, drinking, smoking with his toes, that even when free from the straps, his hands...
...rightly an occasion for festival jollity, and Seniors will make the most of Memorial Hall Monday night and the confetti warfare in the Stadium on Tuesday. But this passes, and the emotion of the average capped-and-gowned candidate at the Commencement exercises will partake more of the serious than of the lightsome. Harvard College has given of its best to these men. Whatever they had she has given them again an hundredfold. To a greater or a lesser degree they have begun to grow up. At the moment of departure there may be in the heart...