Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Leatherbee said the Dramatic Club ever sought letter plays and some day hoped to get Mr. Bell-Wright to do a dramatization of When...
...Shepherd of the Hills. Old-fashioned as a hair sofa is this movie carved from a Harold Bell Wright best seller. Dully, the story preaches the value of turning the other cheek, the ex-minister here involved turning his with the monotony of a metronome. An ex-minister reaches the sheep country, settles among the farmers and sheep owners, and tries by faith in the good to bring them through such troubles as drought and failing crops. Misery bumps the characters around, until the great rain. The humbleness of Alec B. Francis and the plumpness of Molly...
...privilege of successful genius to demand its due and the desire of the populace to accord it, especially if no material consideration is involved. But in the partisanship of the Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well...
...Rockefeller; watched the 88-year-old oilman play golf; said, "When I return to Germany I may write a sketch of Mr. Rockefeller." Mr. Ludwig recently let it be known that he considered the four greatest living U. S. persons to be Thomas A Edison, Jane Addams, Orville Wright, John D. Rockefeller...
...Triangular track meet between Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell. This event takes place in the Boston Arena on Saturday night, February 25. During next week tickets will be on sale at the H. A. A. offices, Leavitt and Peirce's, and in Boston at the Harvard Club, Herrick's, Wright and Ditson's, and the Boston Athletic Association...