Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naturally has become easier to make the course attractive when students do not in general take it only to pass off requirements. But the reason for this year's success lies deeper than that. Philosophy A this year has been a vital course principally because of the skillful, painstaking work of its new lecturer. Unhurried, a little reluctant to face such a large group, yet sincere and thorough, he has kept the whole 200 attentive, in fact made them enthusiastically interested in the subject...
...nervous wife and their pretty daughter (Jean Parker)-appear, Glourie Castle is moved piecemeal to Florida. The ghost goes with it. His penchant for crudely old-fashioned kissing games tends to complicate young Donald Glourie's more romantic experiments, but in other respects his voyage is an unqualified success. It is climaxed when, at Glourie Castle's Florida opening, the ghost discovers a craven member of the Clan MacLaggan, gets the revenge for which he has waited 200 years...
...just happen to fit the individuals to whom they belong. "Homer" seems to have that certain something which can be attached to no other and the fact that Edward Everett Horton has been able to grasp the distinction of the name "Homer Bits", makes his current picture an unbounded success...
...long time, is even more remarkable. However astonishing, the course of events is, nevertheless, explicable, first by political necessity and later by that phenomenon known as war fever. But now that the little fat that Italy had is gone, and now that there can be no buoying military success, the largely unseen currents of public opinion may soon well up, suddenly and dramatically, to sweep Mussolini from power. Any other conclusion would seem far fetched and miraculous...
...evening. It is most unfortunate that several of those kind patrons who are personally involved in installing the chimes will have to speed away be train immediately after the performance. Though the Vagabond, so to speak, is left holding the ladder, nevertheles, he takes pleasure in wishing them much success, Godspeed and many happy returns of the reading season...