Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selected for the production does credit to the intelligence of the director, and shows that, overloaded as the motion picture industry is with citrons, a capable man can find a competent set of actors. Noah Beery is quite himself; and Roland Colman will be sure to please those of upper Massachusetts Avenue. As for the rest, Alice Joyce, Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes do their utmost by the film, and keep its acting and atmosphere at the high pitch which have already given "Beau Geste" such long runs...
They interviewed Rear Admiral Magruder in Philadelphia, implying that Secretary Wilbur was about to do something drastic. Egged on, Rear Admiral Magruder said: "I am an Admiral of the upper half, and I got there without the influence of politics, petticoats or anything but merit. I am grateful to the United States Navy for taking me, a poor country boy, and making me an Admiral, but I am not going to be muzzled...
...feel I'm playing an excellent game for me. I love golf." He likes duck shooting too but has no time for it. He has had no opportunity to travel out of the ninth Federal Reserve District-Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has a daughter, aged 13, another, aged 10. He was only 18 when he went to work as a bank messenger, because he could find no other job. And it has taken him twenty-seven years to reach the highest banking job in the land. For that success...
...annual horde of Freshmen having duly arrived, being now, it is hoped, somewhat acclimated to Cambridge smoke and Harvard airs, the college year is well under way. The only remaining formality necessary to a successful opening is the return of the upper-classmen...
...fall of the year, the first great effort of the Phillips Brooks House Association is in welcoming the new students and helping them to become acclimated. A Handbook containing condensed information on many subjects of interest to the new man is published and distributed until the depradations of upper classmen exhaust the supply. An information bureau is maintained in the parlors of the House during the week before registration. After registration, receptions are given for Freshmen, graduate students, and students from other countries. The work does not stop with receptions, however, and an "Open House" is held from time...