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...compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made her stop using slang, which she learned from Maurice Chevalier. Ignoring the current vogue for inaccessibility in imported film players, Ketti Gallian appeared at parties all dressed up, gave interviews with zest. She managed to keep her weight down riding a bicycle and swimming. Less sexy than many importations, she has a quick charm and an informal blonde beauty. She has gone back to France, will return for another picture...
This system promises to add new zest to the usual continue of undergraduate governmental enquiry, more or less stereotyped by its very nature. Now, however the introduction of the personal element will provide intriguing possibilities of dissection a candidate's personality and character as well as his political ideas. One criticism of this new feature of the Liberal Club's policy appears. Unfortunately in publishing these interviews, no conclusions are to be drawn; the reader is to be left to draw his own inferences from the facts. Though this may be partly necessary to maintain an impartial attitude, it does...
...inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators of the Black Country slag-heaps and the Durham 'tips'. ... I cannot help feeling that this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality, and that this is a serious weakness. . . . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation has never poked his nose outside Westminster, the City and Fleet Street. ... We have led the world, many a time...
...accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention the Humboldt County, Calif., perfumer who 20 years ago scented his advertisement. Dec. 8, 1927, The Oregon Statesman, then published by R. J. Hendricks, now editor-emeritus, put peppermint into its ink to add zest to its "slogan page" which, that issue, dealt with the growth of the peppermint oil industry in Marion County. The peppermint so scented the press ink fountains that the odor continued through the editions for several days...
...power activities and, though not its chairman, admittedly its prime-mover is David Eli Lilienthal. Short, baldish and a bear for work. Dave Lilienthal like a number of other New Dealers is young (35), Jewish and a Harvard Law School graduate who was fired with his zest for public wealing by Felix Frankfurter. For years he has been battling the ogre of private ownership. President Roosevelt picked him from Wisconsin's unorthodox public service commission...