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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss Zoë Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps off with a great rush, then loses momentum. Elsie Ferguson recovers in the courtesan role the warm, stirring undercurrent of her earlier acting. Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer has the cold, damp passion of a clay statue. He seems hardly to have the resolution to kill himself-as he threatens to do at regular intervals but never does...
...past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure extreme cold weather. Whether the recent cold spell was long enough to seriously hurt the weevil is the real question...
...somewhat comforting to find out that the learned are capable of as clever ultra-mondane trickery as are the ignorant. Until lately spiritualistic mediums, magicians, and mind-readers have been almost entirely men and women of the gypsy class. They have held thousands mystified and spell-bound by their white-magic, while they have laughed up their sleeves. But they have almost invariably been detected by investigators more clever than they. Now, however, it appears that the University has its own aspirants to spiritualistic fame; for three sophomores--complete amateurs, it is reported--suceeded in hoodwinking many of their companions...
...first land, Thores, the western-most of the Azores, 2200 miles from Newport, was sighted by our tiny vessel in 17 days. On the whole the weather was good, but one bad gulf gale spell was responsible for our going without hot food for four days. We relied almost wholly upon the wind to move our ship, although it was equipped with a small two-cylinder engine, for emergency in calms...
...speedy Springfield forwards gained a big advantage in the first 15 minutes of play, Ko, at inside right, took a pass from McKillop four minutes after the whistle, and shot the ball past Fitton for the first score. Still on the offense, and giving the University no breathing spell, the visitors rushed the ball forward again and again until Mazeski on the left wing slipped the ball under the bar again for a 2-0 lead...