Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...positions. At No. 3 comes Mr. Good, of the Midwestern midwestern, more citified than Vice President Curtis, less tycoonesque than Secretary Lamont. While Yale men point with pride to Statesman Stimson, and Harvard men to Secretary Adams, Secretary Good is satisfying to that large group of citizens whose background includes the state universities. Indeed the University of Michigan, where "Jim" Good studied law after being graduated from little Coe College ('92), was quick and glad to claim him, in a sort of for-God-for-country-and-for-Michigan alumni article last spring, along with Secretaries Lamont and Hyde (full...
...medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from Paris, Slave of Fashion...
Passed a fortnight. Early last week Molly and Mabel turned up in Moscow, penniless, disheveled, wearing borrowed clothing. With quiet dignity, Morgan-Niece Ingalls remained in the background Said Molly Cogswell...
Prof. Blake admitted that the psychological background of posture is so complex it may never be interpreted with scientific exactitude. But after several years of serious study he was ready to define and demonstrate a few outstanding posture-types...
...four scenes were designed by young Juan G. Novelo. In the first scene, Tuluum is not the fortress-like ruin of that name on the Caribbean Sea but is revived with terraces, temples, palaces, facing inland against a background of green sea, blue sky. In the last scene, Chichen-Itza rears its pyramids from the dust of ages...