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...comfortable Georgian spaciousness of her new winter home. Court gossips have it that she and the Duke found the suite of apartments at their disposal in Buckingham Palace "a bit awkward for entertaining" and White Lodge, "too far out of town." Curzon House is at the very focus of London's fashionable West End, and moreover near Chesterfield House, the town residence of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles...
...widespread has been the comment occasioned by the CRIMSON's experiment that, in order, to focus attention upon the more important criticisms of it within the University, the CRIMSON proposes to amend its ruling on signed communications. Anonymous letters will in no case be published. But students who wish to take exception to any criticisms published in the "Guide" or who desire to criticize courses not included in that summary, may submit their signed letters. Such of them as seem well considered and worthy of publication will be printed, if space allows, and the signatures will be withheld for obvious...
Shore Leave. The last play in which David Belasco presented Frances Starr was the basis for this film play. The interest is shifted to focus on the leading man capably played by Richard Barthlemess. He is a member of the U. S. Navy who makes the acquaintance, one day on leave, of a spinster seamstress. She falls in love with him. He promises to come back to her and eventually does. The U. S. Navy in person assisted in the filming of many scenes. "Cripes" and "spigotty" are givtn as U. S. sailor talk. The net entertainment profit is very...
Later Corporal John was made the focus of countless lenses. "Click," went expensive focal plane press shutters. "Clickety-whurr," purred Bell and Howell cinema cameras. The noted corporal "squads righted," "squads lefted," and "righted by squads...
When Don Quixote tilted with the windmill, he did his best to focus his crumbling and erratic faculties on the proper maneuvering of his rusty shield, the inclination of his little lance, while his gigantic opponent, being without a brain, threshed its huge flails stupidly, and glared with idiotic rancor upon the fustian battler. Harry Greb, middle-weight pugilistic champion of the world, is called the "Pittsburgh Windmill." Like the onetime opponent of Quixote, he swings his arms about and around, jerks them up from below, slams them down from above. But, unlike that mindless creature, he employs...