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First?That the State cede to the Holy See a plot of territory west of the Vatican, including a section of the Rome-Viterbo Railway and the old St. Peter's Station...
What a Night. Bebe Daniels, who in the course of her career has made 52 full-length cinemas, includes in her routine one more plot with its main set in a newspaper office and most of its laughs in Herman Manckiewsz's subtitles. Best shot: Bebe Daniels trying not to sneeze...
...were circulated to the effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology was sloughed out of Emerson Hall and quartered upon the most remote plot of land owned by the University. It was obvious that this geographical dissociation prohibited the possibility of a close analysis of faculty behaviour...
Based on the greediness of mankind, the plot of the play is woven about a rich man's bequest to a group of avaricious relatives, and provides many amusing and interesting situations. The Liberal Club has bought out the house for the second Boston performance of this play and is now selling tickets at the Harvard Cooperative Society with no advance in prices...
...does seem as if the earth were the victim of a kind of heavenly conspiracy to make its crust crawl. Professor Stetson says that perhaps the stars, those eternal symbols of constancy, may be in the plot, too, allowing their rays to be deflected by an atmospheric tidal wave caused by the moon. Shifts in the axis of the earth, and tides in its crust are other possibilities, the scientists assure us, just like that...