Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aloma of the South Seas. A simmering melodrama (by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens) of the islands where all white men are no good has herewith arrived and given every evidence of appealing to the public taste. Naturally enough, the particular man in the case turns out very good...
As he planned, Editor McClure recalled his golden days. He remembered how, at the beginning of the Century, he had gone abroad, obtained introductions to two young English men of letters, come home and published, before other U. S. magazines, the works of Rudyard Kipling and James M. Barrie. He...
Free and Equal. Ten years ago, they produced in California a Negro story. It argued that Negroes were inferior to whites and should not join in Anglo-Saxon competition. It married a white girl to a Negro to prove its point. The producers found their feet suddenly frozen and the...
The Little Minister. It was an unpleasant experience all around, this reopening of Barrie's 30-year-old candy box. It was sad for Barrie, because it showed that time has beaten those early imaginings of his. It was sad for Basil Dean, English director, because it showed (as in...
At Harvard University, 289 years ago, a meal of baked beans and fish cakes was served in the university Commons. The undergraduate body- "two nephews of the president and the professor's son"- complained bitterly about the fish cakes. They added that the butter was bad. For many years...