Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wrecker. What a to-do in the offices of the Great Trunk Line! A criminal, a nameless fiend, is, everyone feels almost certain, going to continue his series of express train demolishments by wrecking the night flyer. To the great dismay of the little group waiting around for something to happen, he does just this; then the president of the road, on the point of naming the dastard's name, is shot down by some mysterious hand...
...scene in a signal tower wherein the very arch criminal actually appears, in coy and terrifying disguise, to prove that he can wreck playgoers' nerves as well as express trains. At the end of a somewhat talky mystery play, which will, however, cause the susceptible to shiver, the wrecker makes known his identity and jumps out a window...
...HOMELAND-Margaret Hill McCarter-Harper ($2.00). Jack Lorton, before he went to France, thought Leslie Jannison was going to be his own little Dream-Girl-yes, that was the way he talked. But when he came back he found her practical, efficient, modern, unsympathetic. Enter a beautiful blonde home-wrecker, Mrs. Sidol, about to be divorced and wanting Jack's legal advice, accompanied by several involved plots. When the plots are all disentangled the band strikes up The Star Spangled Banner and everybody agrees that America is God's Only-Country. Sweet vanilla ice-cream for the unsophisticated...
...College," is stimulating rather than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority of college students are not students...