Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body carried by. Gold Diggers of Broadway (Warner). Avery Hopwood's comedy about a rich man who tried to save his heir from a chorus girl is the framework of an indifferent screen musical show. As a technical accomplishment, Gold Diggers of Broadway has virtues: it is well-dressed, ambitious, brightly colored, energetic; it has some passable tunes in it, and the chorus dances nicely. It fails because the story-framework is not adequate to the demands made on it. Expert playing by Ina Claire and directing by David Belasco got The Gold Diggers across on the legitimate stage...
...fundamental joy. For the story tells you that he has betrayed her with comely Anita Page, who elegantly pantomimes a girl's first inchoate raptures. And Joan has flirted dangerously with a young diplomat for purposes of getting her husband a better job. All might have been well had not the husband's indiscretions suddenly taken an obstetrical turn. Hearing this, his wife has nothing to do but go to Paris for a divorce. There she conveniently meets the diplomat. The picture has all the proper- ties of its predecessor, but lacks the popular sentimentality. Worst shot...
Because the profession as well as the laity has a fuzzy conception of what a chronic disease is, there exist only two special private hospitals for chronic diseases in the U. S.-Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in New York City and Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston. Last week the recently resigned medical director of Montefiore, Dr. Ernst Philip Boas and his chief assistant published a meaty, precise book on the subject.* Special hospitals exist for insane and tuberculous chronics, but no hospitals, except at New York and Boston, for the vast number of those otherwise affected. The great...
Jones took Selina to the Midwestern college where he taught her chemistry. There she learned from a doctor that it would be dangerous for her to conceive a child. She was cold as well as unfit. Yet when Bill was killed in a laboratory explosion and Raphael came from Manhattan for her, she married Raphael and together they went traveling in Europe. By him she conceived at last, and a blood transfusion failed to save her life. An oracular gnome called Bolonowski, whose delicate embroidery seems to exude from her body like spider-thread, helps the author explain that these...
Chess enthusiasts call Master Nimzowitsch philosopher and artist as well as mathematician. Besides his System, he uses shrewd psychological strategy. In his game with Grand Master Rudolf Spielman, the winner of which had a chance to tie Cuban Jose R. Capablanca for first place, he humored his opponent's overaggressiveness, craftily exchanging pieces to gain a winning advantage. To hold his lead in the final game, he had to vanquish Grand Master Tartakower of Vienna. Noting that his adversary looked weary, he deployed on a lengthy rochade attack. After six hours Tartakower's game collapsed and sly Nimzowitsch...