Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Broadcasting Company put on the air its first public broadcast of still pictures. At London's famed Savoy Hotel a smart array of notables gathered to watch the official reception of a sepia photograph of George...
...hold as a small and angry pig. Columbia held Cornell for downs on the one inch line. Kenneth Provincial beat New York University for Georgetown by scuttling 87 yards for a touchdown. The population of Blair, Ohio, sat in the stands at Columbus, wearing ribbons and buttons, to watch Native Mike Miles of Princeton help score on Ohio State...
Best current pictures arranged (A) according to merit (B) according to the money they are making: (A) White Shadow in the South Seas: Sharks and natives in swimming. The Night Watch: Billie Dove on the witness stand. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy gets his man. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the vitaphone. Kriemhild's Revenge: Sequel to Siegfried, last of the great German pictures. Three Comrades and one Invention: Russian comedy. ''Lonesome": Telephone girl's holiday done in the same style as The Crowd. (B) Our Dancing Daughters ($90,000?Capitol, Manhattan); The Singing Fool ($53.000?McVickers...
Very few health officers have that ability to improve conditions. They do the established, approved things; they watch water supplies, garbage disposals, food shop sanitation; they quarantine infected persons; they keep vital and epidemological statistics. They are mainly bureaucrats, jobholders. They must be constantly educated in their public health profession; they must be constantly egged to improve the health of their jurisdictions; they must be constantly pestered to teach their people selfhelp. And once a year they get those urgings in a massive dose...
...Patriot (Emil Jannings): a crazy Tsar trusts Lewis Stone. Lonesome (Glenn Tryon): Two bathhouse keys clink on the beach. The Docks of New York (George Bancroft): Night-life of a stoker. The Night Watch (Billie Dove): Murder on a French battleship told in retakes from the trial. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Eight mammy-songs. The Air Circus: Planes on the Vitaphone...