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With the near approach of the Tercentenary and the almost hourly use of the word in faculty circles, one thorny problem arises. It appears that the director of the Tercentenary, when speaking of the celebration which he is planing, always refers to it as the tur-sen-te-na-ri, with the accent on the "sen," the "te" being pronounced...
...visit his mother and step father. She tells his mother what she is and runs away back to London. The soldier follows her. learns all about her from her landlady and, still eager to marry her, finds her again on Waterloo Bridge. They say good-bye in another convenient tur moil of Zeppelins and searchlights. The soldier sets off for the front. The girl, by lighting a cigaret, has herself destroyed by a bomb. Director James Whale, who made a fine picture of Journey's End, was faced by a harder job in Waterloo Bridge. The stage play...
Only the last of Mr. Lang's suggestions appealed to his colleagues. They know that Australia is in a dreadful financial mess, but they are not ready yet for tur nip money. On the other hand they could see no harm in asking of John Bull the same generous terms he received from Uncle Sam. Later in the week Laborite James Henry Scullin, Prime Minister of all Australia, queried London...
...smoky colonnade of Burlington House in Piccadilly last week bringing notables to the open ing of the great International Exhibition of Persian Art. Waiting for them inside the building were exhibits with an insured value of $30,000,000: crown jewels from the Shah, boxes of miniatures from Tur key, rugs, bronzes, ceramics and textiles from the U. S., France, Germany and 21 other nations. The show was designed to follow the great Flemish and Italian exhibitions at the Royal Academy. But there was this difference : nearly every picture in the Flemish and Italian shows was familiar by reputation...
...French Government, suggests a clause which will present him with the possession of a beautiful American woman, Major Beaujolais dares to refuse with equable asperity. Then there are several reels of sharp sabre-play, sand, and mine explosions. Lastly, the old sheik accepts a contract which omits the tur-pitudinous Santa clause; the lady properly rewards her sabreur...