Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dancing Mothers. No doubt Alice Joyce, Conway Tearle and Norman Trevor will attract their worshipers no matter what the play. This one is last year's stage play about a mother who decided to shame her daughter by dancing faster and drinking more. In the movies it is even worse...
...even be so enlightened as Mr. Heard, Bishop of Bampopo. Bampopo's in South Africa and Mr. Heard is in Norman Douglas' attractively iconoclastic novel, "South Wind." Now he had a most yielding view of south strange sects as Baptists. Classed them with the natives of M'tezo. Incurable heathen, the M'tezo. They filed their teeth, ate their superfluous female relations, swapped wives every new moon, and never wore a stitch of clothes. But they despised lying. One could not help liking them. But Baptists...
...Norman H.] Davis, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, denied that it ever offered Herr Stresemann a prize for his services to the cause of World Peace at Locarno...
...Washington, a notable financial assemblage convened: S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of German reparations; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Andrew W. Mellon; D. R. Crissinger, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; Benjamin . Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Their meeting had no name, no official standing. Deeply, vaguely observers pondered possible but undefined international developments...
Millikan Ray. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Physical Laboratory (Pasadena) reported his five years' research upon a new ray, shorter, quicker, more penetrating than even the Xray. It will pierce two feet of lead. It reaches the earth continuously from surrounding space. Whence it comes, what it does to the earth, how and whither its vast power can be directed, Dr. Millikan could...