Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charmer. Pola Negri almost always works an entertaining miracle of some sort. Whether it is her personality or the shrewd selection of directors and material is difficult to say. Sidney Olcott took an old novel, put her back in the pages as a dancing girl in a European inn. A theatre man, a millionaire and his chauffeur become interested in her. She comes to New York, dances herself into prominence, marries the chauffeur...
...Caruso had a paid claque, but reported a rumor from reputable musical quarters to that effect. If the alleged fact be true, it is neither extraordinary nor particularly reprehensible. Many, if not most, Italian singers have paid claques, regardless of how successful they may be. A claque is a sort of musical insurance against an occasional unresponsive audience. Not infrequently it is more a parasite upon an artist than his tool. If there had been Pond's Cold Cream on sale in Troy or Nuxated Iron on Olympus, what is more likely than that Helen and Mars respectively would...
...Harvard is an autocracy", says Dr. J. E. Kirkpatrick, Professor of History at Olivet College, and former member of the University tutorial staff, but he hastens to add, "As an autocracy it is excellent, intelligent, honest, efficient, sensitive, and responsive, a superior sort of government. If all autocracies could be administered as well as this has been for the past half century, no democracy would have much chance to rise in the world...
...Comprehending the individual personality seems to rest on intuition, a process which psychologists do not entirely understand. Common sense in character judgments of the intuitive sort, correctly attributed to women, rest upon just such an apprehension of the total personality. Analysis of personality will help us to understand people, but it will never supplant this intuitive appreciation of the personality of our associates...
...After all," said Professor Hooton in ending. "It is apparent that the majority of the people require some sort of a system of rewards and punishments to he operative in a future life in order to induce them to conduct themselves with decency and humanity in the present life...