Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voice of the City (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Irish love in a garret pads the complicated and somewhat disconnected framework of this story of a prisoner's escape and revenge. The old-line stage detective who is disagreeable until the last minute is played with remarkable gusto by Willard Mack, who also directed and wrote the picture. After the first performance in Manhattan, the following tribute appeared in an advertisement in the N. Y. World: "The Voice of the City . . . would fit any medium but is best as a talkie. . . . (signed) Willard Mack." Best shot: a living corpse dangling from...
...mains and transports some 35 billion cu. ft. of gas per year. In addition to its 16,000 acres of proven gas leases, however, it also controls 33,000 acres of proven oil leases, and almost 300,000 acres of undeveloped gas and oil lands. Its securities have been somewhat in the "dollar a dozen" class, the half-million-share day closing at 8¼, a net of three. Most of the buying came from the West, was explained as originating in a rumor that the company had struck a new large-volume well...
...Frost-Gorham-Spaulding. Another merger following a merger was definitely announced in the jewelry field. Last March Manhattan's Black, Starr & Frost and Gorham Co. bought themselves a corporate wedding ring and decided to go down the path of business life together. Last week, however, this matrimonial metaphor became somewhat mixed when Spaulding & Co., Inc., joined the union. A holding company?Gorham, Inc.?was formed to handle the joint affairs of the three companies, each of which continued to operate its own establishment. Said Edmund C. Mayo, head of Gorham, Inc.: "U. S. prosperity has brought about a steady...
...Princeton have about them a charm and tradition that calls to mind almost poignantly the older America of Colonial days. These colleges were nurtured in a sturdy and rugged individualism and a sound scholarship that is the pride of these institutions. But I must confess that I have somewhat the feeling that I would if they were to substitute a Gothic tower for the Capitol dome when I see the Gothic halls of Yale and Princeton and the invasion of Harvard by an artificial Quad system (and undoubtedly it must be in Gothic) while Yale is at the same time...
...their readers, but beneath their outward purpose there seems to lie a suggestion of a more significant movement. This method of the student sitting in on classes when he wishes and doing as little or as much work as he desires may be a forerunner of an educational system somewhat similar to the "reading method" now utilized in some institutions. Such a system would require only optional attendance to lectures or classes and independent reading and outside work, guided however, by authorities...