Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cosmopolitan and divided as Harvard men may be, they manage to come together on one or two scattered points. And while views of the House Plan, the War Memorial, and the Lampoon may be colored by many different shades of Crimson, there is always a rosy halo about the neighborhood of Hollis...
...director of "Love, Live and Laugh", the present offering at the Keith-Albee, is one whose work we should like to see more often. In a movie whose plot depends upon the now rather shopworn world war, he has built up a suspense altogether foreign to most movies of today and managed with rare ability to sustain interest to the end. So far have the age-old strictures of producers been disregarded that the picture is actually allowed to close with the hero thwarted in his attempt to win the woman he loves. The rest of the plot has features...
Interested in affairs military, he attended two Plattsburg training camps (1915-1916). When war came, he was commissioned a major of field artillery (311th), went to France in July, 1918, fought through the Argonne campaign, won the D. S. M. from the U. S., the Legion of Honor from France. He returned to his corporation law office in 1919, which he left on Aug. 8, 1922, when he was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator William Evans Crow...
...Castle was born in Honolulu, and his father was King Kalakaua's minister in Washington. He was graduated from Harvard in 1000 and was an instructor and assistant dean here from 1904 to 1913, During the American participation in the World War, he was director of the bureau of communications of the American Red Cross. Entering the state department as a special assistant in 1919, he was gradually promoted until he reached his present position of assistant secretary of state...
Since the war Russell has turned his attention largely to questions of social nature. His writings are noted for their clarity, ready wit, and the power to reach promptly the philosophical issue...