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...This study was initiated through the desire of the department of Mental Diseases to secure comparable anthropological data to be correlated with the elaborate psychiatric and sociological records of country jail prisoners of Massachusetts which the division has been gathering for over three years," Professor Hooton explained to a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOTON TAKES UP STUDY OF CRIME UNDER AWARD | 5/4/1928 | See Source »

...full of cockeyed consomme, petting nights and sad-eyed days -one just knows that Elinor Glyn wrote the original story. But old irony played its ace and The Mad Hour turned out to be tragedy. Cuddles married a rich man, got mixed up with a crook, was sent to jail, lost her child, committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Griggs's final assault states that the colleges make capable students "do time" by retaining for four years the man who has covered the ground in two; and especially, that teachers who have completed all the required work are obliged to "serve a jail sentence to get the M.A. and then the Ph.D. degrees." But the four-year requirement is not inflexible. At Harvard alone a fairly large number of candidates receive their degrees in three or three and one-half years; and if any of Dr. Griggs's two-year men should ever come to the University, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND AGAIN, THE SCHOOLS | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...botanist could have predicted, the rose of romance burgeons in the sawdust. In this case, the male principal is Gino (Charles Farrell), who paints minor masterpieces more often than he takes a bath. When Gino takes Angela back to Naples, the police recognize her and clap her into jail. When she is finally released, Gino exhibits a desire to strangle and a passion to wed. Noble, he weds. The warm, misty sky of Naples and the warm beauty of Miss Gaynor were not missed by the camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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