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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Garibaldi: "His was an impulsive nature. He fell in love with his Anita at first sight. . . . His first words when they first met were: 'Thou oughtest to be mine'-which she incontinently...
Rolling Home (Reginald Denny). Another sample of Mr. Denny's genial and utterly unimportant art impresses one with the power of his sunshine. He plays the part of a busted millionaire returning to his home town and buying everything in sight. Just as the inhabitants are about to solve his insolvency, he fastens on to a power franchise, wins the girl, and all of that. These things would be thin indeed were it not for Mr. Denny. As a matter of fact they are pretty good...
...defects of much of our teaching and especially of the lecture system is that this part of the function of education is to a great degree lost from sight. An improvement in our examination system which will measure the grasp of a whole subject is, I believe the most serious advance that can be made in American education today...
They are not an unusual sight at the annual spring salon in the Grand Palais, where all the artists of Paris carry their best work of the past year for public exhibition. Yet such was the number of undressed ladies that one exasperated critic went back to his newspaper and wrote, "It isn't a salon, but a bedroom...
...royal majesty he fought with all his might; He was a soldier loyal and true. He conquered all the enemies that came within his sight And he looked around for more when he was through...