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...leading roles and ably assisted by H.B. Warner. These three give well-shaded characterizations in what is a rather elaborate picture. If there is any main fault to be found with this offering it is the overabundance of material. The scenes follow in such profusion that at times the thread of the story is completely lost but in spite of the occasional tedium the two naval encounters make up for many defects, being as good as any ever filmed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Examples: Interstate Commerce Commission, U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, U. S. Board of Mediation, National Screw Thread Commission, Board of Surveys & Maps of the Federal Government, War Claims Arbiter, Pan American Sanitary Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...reads deeper into the significance of the picture Miss Bryner is endeavoring to put into real life one realizes that Bennington is a coward. It is, indeed, a strange dilemma he has worked himself into but at the same time it is a highly possible one. The thread of the story is vastly more confused, however, with the death of his wife, his engagement to the woman he thought he loved, and his falling desperately in love with a third women. Not having much strength of character, and desirous of letting things drift on as they are he eventually slips...

Author: By S. P. D., | Title: Four of the Season's Novels | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...said that the Chrysler automobile was dreamed and determined by that, tall, husky, pensive resident of Oelwein among the dissembled parts of his 1905 Locomobile, which broadens the thread of romance in the Chrysler career from 1905 to 1924, when the first Chrysler car appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Motors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only the most intrepid explorer would venture into labyrinthine Hell Passage, or attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand the weather. The fields are a sodden green. Every afternoon hundreds come back from their Rugger games muddier and scarcely drier than the rowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rhodes Scholar Writes Contemporary Oxford Articles | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

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