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...Running concurrently with the Lucky-golfer advertisement, a Chesterfield advertisement pictured a grand & glorious battleship, described Chesterfield as "our Navy's" choice. Pointed by the fact that New York was then entertaining the U. S. battle fleet, the Liggett & Myers Co. advertisement represented attention value in a more conservative form...
...Mayer). This is an ambitious version of Tolstoy's play about a man who redeemed himself spiritually by sacrificing everything, even life, to his inability to make decisions. Its intention is less to popularize Tolstoy than to strengthen the prestige of Actor John Gilbert, whose first talking picture, His Glorious Night, was a failure. Gilbert declaims Fedya in a resonant, hollow voice, giving in his best scenes a lively imitation of John Barrymore and in his worst a caricature of himself in those pictures in which he made his reputation as the Screen's Greatest Lover. The photography and recording...
...errors, Wichita none. Said Hugrie Nielsen, Des Moines shortstop: "It's easier to hit a curve by electric light." Said Lee Keyser, president of the Des Moines club, who thought up night-baseball to draw the fans who could not get away in the afternoons: "It was splendid . . . glorious...
...little time for self-education, for self-improvement of personal gifts and inclinations, for self-development of his own character by independent thought and experience. This is a fault to be corrected. Neither the college nor anyone has a right to monopolize the life of youth with its glorious possibilities, as if a certain amount of leisure were sure to be wasted or misapplied...
...Chamber quieted he continued: "Any attempt to inculcate hostility to the glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...