Word: severe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Greece to Rome", Dr. Dickinson, Sever...
...Sever is the one Harvard undergraduate who did not go to see the orchidaceous Greta Garbo in "Flesh and the Devil", because of the rumor that the film would be censored after the police department had had a chance to feast its eyes on the square-head's curves. Robert Sherwood said it was a good thing that the smooth Swede was married to John Gilbert before the scenes were shot. It was really rather a Puritan precaution, we hear, but it may serve to raise their divorcing average...
...Sever instead showed himself a true and thrifty son of his college by supporting "a Cambridge institution". With Appleby Hollishemer he utilized the ticket allowing him to be bored free of charge at the cave of the riots. He got his nothing's worth, for he was not even thrilled by the giant tapestry representing George Washington on parade, --right in front of Radcliffe, the old flirt! Emerson Sever noticed that there were no idle Harvard students looking...
...being intelligent enough to take a line of his own. Mr. Sever takes after orthodox so-called intelligentsia in hating the radio, elk's teeth, white socks, camels, and above all, what passes in the middle-class moving picture for humour. Cinema humour is atavistic; it goes back to the primeval source--cruelty. And it gets results. While Emerson and Appleby with growing displeasure watched a pitiful creature fall down stairs and get hit over the head and make grimaces, a lady (term used by courtesy) next them was overcome with paroxysms of joy. Tears made little canyons down...
...Heinrich von Kleist," Professor Howard, Sever...