Word: slides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew a lot could think of, showing you how life worked out for that burgomeister. The picture itself is silent, but a musical accompaniment adds to its beauty. It was written by two Russians, Victor Schertzinger and Nicholas Soussanin. Best shots: the dance in the village hall, the toboggan slide, the boys who don't like birthday cake, Jannings wiping his tears on his dead wife's chemise, a nun in the village hospital, the moment on the stairs when the idea of getting even upsets reason for the burgomeister...
...Gloucester dory regatta on the River. The terms of this contest have not yet been cleared up but it is supposed that the opposing crews will row in the same direction starting from the Weeks Memorial Bridge. Robert Leader Lampoon has been engaged as superficial transom and slide greaser in charge of coaching operations. "Remain long in the water and don't shoot" are the warning words of this mentor...
Reporter Owen, who wrote himself into a state when an ice slide recently endangered the party (TIME, Feb. 11), this time abstained from hysterics and heroics. Perhaps having heard echoes of the way some of his romantic writings have been received in the U. S., he let Harold June dictate a first-hand account of almost incredible winds in the Rockefeller Mountains...
...lighting in the lecture rooms is so bad when the lamps are dimmed for slide projection that a positive strain on the eyes results from an hour's attempt at taking notes in the gloom...
...there are further shortcomings of the Fogg, just as serious, to which no allusion was made. These are: the extremely poor lighting of both the Large and Small lecture rooms during slide-lectures; the noise and inefficiency of the ventilating system; and the swarming of women students in the Library, particularly at times immediately preceding examinations in large Fine Arts courses...