Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they love Art and the Drama were struck a painful and shameful blow when the fact was made known Tuesday that Professor Baker, representing creative Art at Harvard has been forced to resign: forced to resign because the liberalism of Harvard was not great enough to permit originality to flourish forced to resign because of the practical and narrow vision of those who control our universities...
...allow the conception of Heaven and Hell that the Fundamentalists have to flourish we will find many of our progressive moves being held in check. For instance their positive belief that everyone goes either to Heaven or Hell makes them argue in favor of capital punishment. At the time the time the Leopold-Loeb case was going on, I heard Doctor Straton from his own pulpit give as a reason for the horrible crime that the Devil had possessed the two boys...
...film is out; and the censors are silent. So discerning was the craftsmanship that most of the original weathered the storm. The story, in case one's memory has blind spots, tells of an earnest youth whose wild oats flourish forth at the feet of his fiancée. The moral is that all men are tarnished; it is woman's task to select a husband that cleans easily. May McAvoy and Marie Prevost occupy themselves to good effect as the fiancée and the wild oats. The picture is to be recommended, but not with banners...
...experiment which bids well to be of the latter, scarcer class, one destined to live and flourish in Harvard, is the newly reorganized Student Council, Reduced in size by one-half, its manner of election radically changed, it retains scarcely a vestige of resemblance to the Councils of forme3r years. There is hope it retains none of their sluggish in activity...
...Signal Tower. Simple, straightforward roles, played without a flourish, directed by anyone with some feeling for proportion and suspense, make passable pictures. Run them off in a mountainous, shaggy, backwoods setting, make Wallace Beery the villain, Rockcliffe Fellowes the hero, Virginia Valli the heroine, and you may turn out the best deep-chested melodrama of the year. That is what Director Clarence Brown did, the story chosen being that of an honest, overalled signalman and his wife, whose hair-raising vicissitudes, domestic and vocational, are caused by a hulking railroad sheik. Punished once for snatching kisses, this sheik chooses...