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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Psychological Clinic, as it is called, contains a lecture room, reading and meeting room, waiting room, four consultation rooms, and two experimental rooms. On two afternoons a week students and instructors and a few practising physicians of Boston gather in the meeting room where, like flies on the wall, the framed countenances of the founders of modern philosophy and psychology leer down upon us, austerely critical. It is a livable house with no mammoth marble columns to remind us of the Roman Parthenon or the First National Bank, and no reinforced concrete to establish in our minds conceptual images...
...modern world is putting its best foot forward in an attempt to emulate Biblical heroes. Weird psychie phenomena such as Sir Oliver Lodge has been known to demonstrate are often considered on a par with Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream or with the handwriting on the wall. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Moreover, by directing with much success and grandeur the crossing of the Red Sea, Cecil De Mille claims recognition as having out-manoeuvered Moses...
Early in 1928, Manufacturers' Trust, which had gained control of the 116-year-old Bank of America, sold control to the A. P. Giannini interests, giving A. P. Giannini a Wall Street foothold. On Oct. 1, 1928, Manufacturers' Trust had resources of $356,000,000; deposits...
...What Wall Street delicately terms a "combination of interests," what on other thoroughfares would more bluntly be called a merger, last week transpired between the International Acceptance Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Co., both of Manhattan. The distinction between interest combination and merger lies in the fact that the two banks will not merge physical properties, but that their stockholders will arrange an interchange of securities. Later there will be formed an investment bank, to be known as International Manhattan Co., so that, like many another bank, the new combination will have an affiliated financing organization whose operations...
...laughter, of course, is not an expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs...