Word: vane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspired by its sense of responsibility as a moulder of public opinion, the CRIMSON will not go to California and laugh it off. Tireless investigation has uncovered a new but reliable formula which may solve the problem. Climb Lowell House Tower and tap base bell with weather vane (unobtrusively removed from Dunster House at high noon three days before). Number of echoes indicates proper month. Using standard sextant, determine latitude and longitude. Look at watch to find time of day. Multiply sum of these results by the height in rods of new Chapel Tower. By the time this is done...
Next was born TripleX. Under the same basic title, the magazine would follow public taste like a weather vane, giving in turn stories of war, flying, crime, etc. Currently it is Triple-X Western (115,000). Author Jim Tully got his start when Triple-X first published his Beggars of Life...
...picture appeal. A dowager, a charwoman, a financier, a drunkard and a pair of unhappy lovers are capably presented by a cast that includes Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Chandler, Leslie Howard. When the interest weakens it is not the fault of the picturemakers but of the writing. Playwright Sutton Vane was not completely successful in creating the terror and grandeur that his theme demanded, but his effort was courageous, moving, sincere, and so is Warner's reflection of it. Best shot: Leslie Howard, as a neurotic, supersensitive inebriate, beginning to understand what sort of voyage he is making...
...roof, white as sugar icing, is decorated by a frieze of pink and blue imitation candy hearts. Huge cookies (of cork) are set in the giddily striped and curlicued walls. A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane. A gigantic black cat arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants...