Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellent thing to watch. There are pretty faces, there are Ann Pennington's dimpled knees, there are some settings of real beauty, there are curtains by R. Marsh, there are notable costumes. And the music is not offensive. Brooke Johns wields his voice and his banjo to good effect. Unfortunately there is also a plot-something about a magic chair that makes you tell the truth. The heroine injudiciously sits in it just before getting married. That, of course, makes tho wedding impossible, and it is some time before she can get started all over again on another...
...Uncle Joe" Cannon: " Cigar manufacturers of New York presented me with the largest smokeable cigar ever made. It was twenty-eight inches long and a foot in circumference. It weighed five pounds. Just the thing for a heavy smoker...
...veal's thereafter. Thus, unless all counties or cities availed themselves of the privilege granted by the law, it might have a local application. But ordinarily for a bill to be considered a local or private bill it must be limited to a particular locality, individual or thing. As tax exemption might be general or local, according to the action taken by the counties or cities, the law is not a purely local one, and there is reason to believe that the appellate units will not consider it to be such. It has already been referred to favorably...
...Mary Roberts Rinehart and Irvin S. Cobb done exactly the same thing a couple years ago but not any better, in fact not so good, although maybe they made more sense...
From the beginning of the academic year through the first semester the University Press has published in addition to the official University publications, 18 books. The record of output this year has not been broken as the Press published the same number of books during 1921-22. An unusual thing has happened this year in that five of the books printed since September 1, 1922 have either already been reprinted or will be before the middle of April. The usual length of time for University Press publications to run into second editions has been two years. The reason offered...