Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HOPE OF HAPPINESS?Meredith Nicholson?Scribner ($2.00). Bruce Storrs, young architect, World War veteran, was faced with an extraordinary problem. His widowed mother, dying, confided to him that John Storrs had not been his father, and begged him, when he was left alone, to seek out and watch over his real father, Franklin Mills, the dominating " leading citizen" of a nearby city. He obeyed?and in what strange ways he came into contact with his father and his father's family?how he did his best to steady his jazz-bitten but charming half-sister Leila?how he fell...
...forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare and the raised eyebrow of regenerated America...
Hallowe'en is a dead issue with the undergraduate declared members of the College police force yesterday when questioned as to whether they would put extra men on duty tonight to watch the College property. They declared there would be no extra trouble due to Hallowe...
...Hospital, Lambeth. His plays have been produced with varying success. Both as a dramatist and novelist he possesses, it seems to me, two distinct qualities: a feeling for the sweep and power of dramatic passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow as subtle as life itself; Somerset Maugham, bending toward him, quiet, dark, reserved, cynical, observant, interpretative. They are both geniuses-they almost represent the two types of genius...
...Crimson soccer team will open its fourth game of the season at 4 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field against the Springfield College eleven. Defeated last year 4 to 2, the visitors are returning with a powerful forward line and a strong desire for revenge. Coach Welch will watch especially for an improvement in the Crimson attack, which, in the absence of Lamont, failed to function properly against Amherst last week...