Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being so atrociously bad that it was funny. It was just dull, inept, feeble, groping, obfuscated. That is all. Author I. K. Davis starts out with an intrinsically interesting premise- a protest against the workaday world that would force a man to the accumulation of money, thus smothering the spark of divine genius. In his play, the young man to whom he attributes genius shows not a flicker of it except through devoted championing by his actress-wife-and she seems to be merely parroting the author's own description of him. The young man, determining to conquer...
These friendly concerns are: Kirkman & Son (soap), The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., Washburn-Crosby Co. (flour), The Champion Spark Plug Co., The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., The Sun Oil Co., The Hood Rubber Co., The Ajax Rubber Co,, The Ward Baking Co., The Dodge Brothers Co., Gulf Refining Co., Standard Oil Co. of New York, The Texas Co. (oil), The Fleischmann Co. (yeast...
Helen Hayes is radiantly demure as the flapper, as deft and cocky as a bird. Hers is the only real spark of life in the piece. O. P. Heggie is condemned to suffocate his gorgeous Dickensian caricaturing in a stuffed shirt role. Kenneth MacKenna and Gilda Leary are others who try valiantly to keep their bearings...
...occurred to me, if in a generation I could be the means of helping one only of those who have in them that vital spark we call genius I would in fact be helping indirectly a multitude of my fellow...
Those who feared lest Congress, following some idle resolution, should begin the new year by attending to business are reassured by the promise that the post-holiday session will open with more than the usual amount of oratorical fulmination. The strongest spark firing the barrage which should rather successfully bury the really vital issue of tax reduction is the Mexican situation. The Administration has sold arms and ammunition to President Obregon who will use them to quell the de la Huerta insurrection...