Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feminine contingent will get their customary thrill out of Rod La Rocque and his antics as a deshing young adventurer for whom the bandits "stand and Deliver." This young man is always dashing and adventurous, or is supposed to be. He dashes around quite a bit in this picture with Lupe Velez, whom those who were so unfortunate as to see "The Gaucho" will remember. Together they put romance on the map in the Balkans, and cause Warner Oland, wh plays the renegade, to lead a miserable existence. This photoplay will be forgotten before one is past the portals...
...numbers of the most influential men who will have to be consulted in rounding up delegates at Kansas City and in collecting campaign funds afterwards. Among the politicians themselves there is in addition a belief that Mr. Hoover's personal prestige is not of a kind which would stand up well in competition with the intimate personal quality of Gov. Smith's popularity. Mr. Hoover's virtues suggest the clean precision of the scientific man. They are abstract and intellectualized. He has not the flair of a man like Vice President Dawes for heating the blood...
...conscientious professional conduct against the announcement of the Ministry of Justice that he had been proved to spend his leisure time "in drinking immoderately . . . contracting many bad debts . . . [and] generally leading a dissolute life." Squeamish Poles rejoiced at a further official announcement that the permanent gallows which now stand in the yards of all State prisons will be removed "as offensive to public opinion." Hereafter a special, temporary gallows will be erected for each neck-snapping or strangulation...
...well as lawyers and physicians, prefer scholars. He cited a survey made by his own firm, in which it was found that "men from the first tenth of their college classes [equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa rank] have four times the chance of those from the lowest third to stand in the highest tenth salary group." He concluded: "While I do not believe that success in life can be rated by income, I do believe that as between one man and another working in the same business organization, success and salary-while not the same thing-will, generally speaking, parallel...
...against this chaos that Professor Babbitt has, in the name of Aristotle, definitely taken his stand. By all thoughtful persons his position will be applauded; by all, whether thoughtful or not, the facts which he presents will sooner or later have to be faced...