Word: nightly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Latin. Both were born aristocrats, able generals. Both were friends of LaFayette, both wrote voluminous political treatises which have profoundly affected the courses of their nations. Washington secretly, Bolivar openly mistrusted and despised the common people. Both often led ragged, ill-equipped armies. Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, Bolivar crossed the Andes in midwinter. Washington had German drillmasters, French troops to help him. Bolivar had a foreign legion of British and Irish veterans of the Napoleonic wars under the dashing General Simon B. O'Leary. Washington's insularity may have been due to the fact that...
...told about someone they know. Yet no lies are told in this picture. You can accept Jackie Coogan, you can accept the treatment which does all for the story that any cinema could do in the limits of program time-present its surface, the long lazy days and river night-falls of Hannibal, Mo. in 1870, and the adventures of some children there. Naturally, the adventures have been telescoped, but most of the best ones are left -Tom showing off for Becky Thatcher, being tortured by his conscience because he and Huck Finn and Joe Harper...
...tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were a gypsy fiddler, a bishop, a mayor. Once a beautiful peasant woman fell in love with him for a night, begged him to help her revenge herself on her absent and unfaithful husband. Baerlein was a perfect gentleman. Philosophical, he took everything as it came, let it go the same...
...lapse into a coma. Best feature of the futuristic sequences is a ballet mecanique, led by blond and birdlike Mr. Dunham. Premiere of The Tiger Smiles was held in Princeton at the handsome new McCarter Theatre. Not since the old casino burned has Princeton had a Triangle first night. Cantankerous graduates may not think the show so funny as Espanola (1922), so tuneful as Drake's Drum (1924), so beautiful as Samarkand (1927) but it affords a large quantity of near-professional entertainment. On tour during the next two weeks, The Tiger Smiles may be viewed in Columbus, Chicago...
...time president of Hinds Junior College. Lists of new faculties were given to the new presidents. Professors dismissed got no notice, discovered it by reading newspapers. They noted that they were replaced by Bilbomen, that many an extra job had been created; state legislators were listed as proctors and night watchmen, one was "honorary captain of grass-cutters." Results of the shake-up were soon apparent : U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde objected to a Bilbo appointee at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College, one Lee Denson, threat to withdraw Federal aid ($340,000 Governor Bilbo gave...