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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have found the weather disagreeable this winter will sympathize heartily with Mr. Robert Condit of Miami, Florida, not, however, because weather in Florida has fallen below its usual standards of hotel prospectus perfection, but because the peculiar atmospheric conditions of the last few weeks have prevented Professor Condit, for such is his title, from making a most ambitious long distance flight. Mr. Condit, who sees elevating possibilities in the study of chemistry, has constructed an ingenious, gas-filled contrivance, which will project him permanently into the ether. For his destination, he has chosen rather than the conventional mars...
...policies that whenever the billboards outside advertise the name of Emil Jannings, there is a good show within. This phenomenon of the silver screen, this certainty of a good picture, is assured by no other name that we know of except Jannings, and he has fulfilled his promises as usual in "The Last Command" appearing at the Metropolitan this week...
...apparitions in the prison, doctored up with as much sensationalism as possible, to thoughtful attempts to reach an ultimate judgment upon the whole problem by virtue of a particular example newspapers have treated the case from every conceivable aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time, as to whether a murderer should pay with his own life. For various humanitarian reasons eight of the forty-eight states have abolished capital punishment, there remaining forty that have preserved it, although they differ in procedure, most of them favoring electrocution or hanging...
Last week Mr. Bennett was welcomed to the Commons in his new capacity by Premier King (Liberal) who, as usual, turned many a felicitous phrase anent the new leader of His Majesty's Opposition: ". . . natural endowments . . . ripe scholarship . . . large and comprehensive grasp . . . high legal attainments . . . welcome [as] Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
...frank opinion of a CRIMSON competition. Although the candidate in question is in the last stages of his competition and has consequently passed through the depression and discouragement of the first few weeks, his view of CRIMSON work is not blurred by the softening mist which separates the usual graduate editor from the scene of his undergraduate labors...