Word: alec
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland Street. This concert will be open, free of charge to officers and students of the University. The following programme will be presented by Mr. Whiting at the pianoforte, assisted by Mr. Manuel Compinsky, violin, and Mr. Alec Compinsky, violoncello...
From the clergy came a wry farrago. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates at the Chapel of the Intercession called Jolter Barnes a smart-Alec. Dr. Lyman P. Powell at St. Margaret's remarked that Jolter Barnes confused front page publicity with ordered knowledge. Rabbi Nathan Krass at Temple Emanuel contended: "Science enhances the glory of God." Cardinal Hayes at St. Patrick's Cathedral listed a score of great men in biology, anthropology, astronomy, surgery, pathology, who have been Catholic, religious...
...nearer the North are Pinehurst, Camden, Asheville, Aiken, Augusta, where the Southeast begins. One can take ship from Boston to Charleston or from New York to Miami or Savannah. ¶ Southbound golfers often head for the places where their favorite professionals hold forth. At Pinehurst are Donald and Alec Ross; at Augusta, Dave and Alec Ogilvie; at Belleair, Alex Smith. Gene Sarazen is at New Port Ritchey, Fla. At Miami Beach is Willie Klein; at St. Augustine, National Open Champion Johnny Farrell. Jock Hutchison is still a fixture at Nassau in the offshore Bahamas...
...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 O'Day take up most of the footage...
White Gold (Jetta Goudal). Old Carson (George Nichols) owns a sheep ranch, these six months blistered by a relentless sun. With his son, Alec (Kenneth Thomson), he herds his woolly treasure on scorched hills. Into their baked monotony the son brings his bride, a young dancing girl of quick spirit (Jetta Goudal). The maddening sun drives them all to exasperation, so that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything...