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...common Christian name there seems to be no valid basis for the Society's efforts. No other appellation but "George" will do for the porter. He can not be expected to reply to "Pat" or "Mike", nor even "Hans" or "Fritz". He is usually too old to be called "boy" and too young to be hailed as "old man". And furthermore, he is too important a personage to be addressed by any title but one which traditionally connotes dignity and respect...
...screen, as well as the earnest student of the cinema, if there be any such. It is filled with information, treated with a saving grace of humor. The writer lists the best pictures within the period covered by his book, as follows : Nanook of the North, Grandma's Boy, Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Eternal Flame, Shadows, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, Peg o' My Heart, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Driven, The Pilgrim, Down to the Sea in Ships, The Covered Wagon, Hollywood, Merry-Go-Round. These Mr. Sherwood adduces to show that the film...
...Among the Swedes we find scoundrels and hypocrites, and I was surprised that the able Senator from Alabama, Mr. Heflin, devoted an hour and 15 minutes to speaking about an immigrant boy who came over here and who had been here only a few months, who happened?perhaps he was insane?to stab a boy who had been born in this country...
...gold brooch of the Viking period was scratched up from the mud of a pond in the province of South Bergenhus, Norway, by a flock of geese in charge of a small boy. The curator of the Stavanger Museum pronounced it a genuine antique...
...Scotch boy completing his education at the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa...