Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patience. The whole arrangement is plainly one under which the city of Boston will receive much more than it gives. All the Boston Library does is to make the new Harvard library in Brighton a depository for such scattering books on business as are not required for ordinary current use at the Library in Copley square. In return, the Boston Public Library, and every citizen of Boston, will be given free use of one of the richest and most complete collections of books and files on business now in existence anywhere in the world...
...products, for the best local campaign, and for the best local campaigns in cities of 100,000 population or less; a $2,000 prize for the most conspicuous advertising research to bring about economy and preclude waste; four prizes of $1,000 each for advertisements most effective in the use of text, in the use of pictorial illustration, in the combination of text and illustration, and in the use of typography...
...quarantine which has hung over the Commonwealth Armory has been lifted, and the University Polo team took possession of the ring for practice yesterday afternoon. The Crimson malletmen have been unable to move in their ponies until yesterday, and they have been forced to use the Cavalry and Artillery mounts. Hampered by strange horses, the poloists have been unable to train as often as they would have desired...
...than it seems to the average patron who yawns and wishes he had gone in town instead; but it does seem probable that one good picture on each bill would draw a better crowd than two poor ones, eked out with an act of fifth-rate vaudeville. Of what use are ushers in natty uniforms, radio set in the lobby, and all the luxury of the Pharoahs, in the pictures on the screen are specimens of Hollywood at its worst. Movies in the Square, especially at such times of stress as examinations always bring, could be a welcome and convenient...
West 45th St.--A musical comedy tart is both musical and comic. Gershwin Brothers saw to it that Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw, and Victor Moore had the material, and these three, aided by the dancing of Harland Dixon and Betty Compton, made good use of it. When they play "Do Do Do" and "Clap Yo" Hands," the audience does...