Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Largest store in the Hahn combine is Jordan Marsh Co. of Boston. For 78 years Boston shoppers have been going to Jordan Marsh's, which, during the U.S. Civil War, did a large cotton business through the energy and shrewdness of a young employe named James Fisk. When the...
The Legend of Gosta Berling, made in Sweden several years ago, brought the disturbing face of Greta Garbo to the notice of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. Lars Hanson (here Gosta Berling, an unfrocked Swedish preacher in love with a Count's wife in a Nobel Prize story by...
Governor Smith's election will give decided momentum to the liberalizing tendencies in American social economy. Rapplly, Smith has no set, doctrinaire principles," but possesses a mind free for new experience and responsive to its directions. During his long tenure of political leadership in Albany, he has achieved great things...
"Talley trouble," meanwhile, has come to mean lack of temperament. The life she leads has been as much to blame. In it there have been vocal gymnastics, new languages for new operas, right living. There have been few books, few friends, no beaus. There have been the rigid standards bred...
The Significance. Audacious as it is masterly, the conception of a young hero-heroine living richly century after century is a feat of imaginative intelligence. In unskilled hands the bold conception might well fall short of artistic execution, but Mrs. Woolf is a craftsman of great skill. The mechanics of...