Word: boomerang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Doctor (Paramount). In the theatre this was The Boomerang, an unpretentious comedy about a doctor and a pretty nurse. As a talking picture built around that able farceur Richard Dix, it is satisfactory entertainment?even at times uproarious. It may be fairly evident when the doctor tells his nurse how to arouse the symptoms of love in a patient that she is going to practice the knowledge on him, but obviousness rather accentuates than spoils the comedy. Best shot: Dix telling his fiancée about his new job at the lunatic asylum...
...peace conference it was no secret that Clémenceau allowed Tardieu to draft important sections of the Treaty of Versailles. Afterwards this honor proved a boomerang, for the treaty soon became unpopular, and tenacious André Tardieu made matters worse for himself by incessantly defending it. "One has only to mention Versailles." smiled M. Poincaré at this period, "and Tardieu will rise up and cry 'present...
...follows: (1) Don't allow the object of your desires to know she or he holds such a position of honor. (2) Make her or him jealous; and (3) Make yourself scarce. The advice certainly sounds good to the unexperienced ear, but it acts as the proverbial boomerang in Richard's case, which is a lucky thing for otherwise the good picture would have to have an unexpected ending and that would obviously be impossible...
...Natural History. The museum's Barnum Brown accompanied him, and the Carnegie Institution's Earl H. Morris. They found evidence that the extinct Basket Makers, Aborigines who preceded the Cliff Dwellers, used cotton for their textiles, inner bark of the squawberry bush for their baskets. A grooved boomerang with a handle suggested a remote connection between the Basket Makers and the boomerang throwers of Australia. On this trip he secured two boxes of dinosaur bones...
...natural reaction to the policy of University Hall in its handling of the Harkness gift and House Plan publicity. The secrecy and procrastination of the officials in refusing to place the whole matter quickly and fully before the graduate and undergraduate body have turned out to be a boomerang. In the absence of illumination from University authorities arguments for both sides of the controversial issue have been supplied with a characteristic speed. Professor Hall is, perhaps, not the only one who feels that the House Plan was being "railroaded" to its destination through channels far removed not only from...