Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idleness, even under the guise of official duty, President Hoover has no use. Last week he prepared to put his new military aides-Lieut. Col. Campbell B. Hodges, U.S.A. and Capt. Allen Buchanan, U.S.N.-to work. Col. Hodges reported for duty last week at the White House from West Point, where he was Commandant of Cadets. He found a shiny new desk awaiting him in the executive offices. Similar equipment will be ready for Captain Buchanan when he comes to the White House from the U. S. S. Omaha in a few weeks...
Specialization. Aviation has developed four main types of craft for civilian use-gadabouts to hop from one suburb to another nearby; sport planes, slightly bigger; coupes, sedans, coaches and cabins (all the foregoing may be flown comfortably by the owner pilot); limited commercial planes, which carry usually six passengers (these also come equipped with office furniture for the business executive, his secretary, his pilot); the great transports. Land planes, of course, were most numerous at Detroit. But notable is the number of amphibians, seaplanes and air yachts now on the market-Sikorsky, Fairchild, Keystone, Leoning, Boeing, Aeromarine, Klemm, American Marchetti...
...unable to devote her entire time to this object because of the necessity of spending some of it correcting her mother's grammar. Mrs. Fiske returns to her old role with all the vivacity of a young and eager actress and does not hesitate to make use of the broad clowning and reversible inflections that were considered high technique in 1911. Her performance is glowingly amusing. In addition there is a brilliant bit of character acting by Sidney Toler as a tombstone salesman...
Mystery Square. The original idea was to dramatize Robert Louis Stevenson's eerie tale, The Suicide Club. But the authors evidently were not content to use the device of building crescendo by the steady growth of suspense, so they introduced shrieks, hysterics, faints, shots in the dark. The result is a conventional thriller which Stevenson, were he in the habit of haunting Broadway, would never recognize. The cast is competent enough, especially Gavin Muir, Hubert Druce and Marie Adels, but the general result is more mysterious than was intended...
...gambit of the Christian Science Parent Church was to charge that Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy used anesthetics. It was a familiar move and the Christian Science Mother (Boston) Church quietly answered that Mrs. Eddy did not "at any time after she became a Christian Scientist either use a drug or allow one to be used for her except as she employed in a few instances an anesthetic for the purpose of temporary relief from extreme pain." (TIME...