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Professor Morison did not dwell at length on the well-worn, familiar facts of Harvard history, but instead introduced comparatively new material. Thus, we learn that in the days when term-bills were paid in produce, one scholar was credited with an animal's "suet innards" and another with a "piece of stuff...
...Tulsa Alf Landon barked that "a member of my opponent's immediate family" had been "guilty of peddling a lie." The "lie" was the well-worn charge that Governor Landon had helped balance his budget by closing up 458 Kansas schools, thereby depriving 8,557 Kansas children of educational privileges. Fact was, declared the Nominee, that the closed schools had been sparsely attended, that all their pupils had been transferred to other schools, and that "not a single boy or girl in Kansas has been deprived of the educational advantages that are rightfully...
Being the well-worn tale of the urchin and her none-too-scrupulous grandfather who soon lie on a bed of roses through the darling simile and bobbing curls of the little tot, "Dimples" differs from the previous parade of Temple screen monopolizations only in the Shirley has an opportunity for real acting in her portrayal of Little Eva's death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Admirers of the wonder child will be pleased with the talent the youngster displays in this sequence, and those who are not so impressed will appreciate the able acting of Frank Morgan...
Simone Simon, 19, was so thoroughly in dulged by her father, a French engineer, that in Madagascar, where he is running a graphite mine, he allowed her to roam the streets with two cub panthers on a leash. Back in Paris she went to art school, followed the well-worn course into musical comedy bits. One day W. Tourjansky, free-lance director, saw her in a street cafe, addressed a soft remark to her. She slapped his face. Impressed, he tested her, cast her as Pierrette in Chanteur Inconnu opposite Opera Singer Lucien Muratore. She made Le Roi des Palaces...
With 41 crates reportedly containing gold bars and Ethiopia's well-worn old green Imperial treasure chest among his luggage, His Majesty Haile Selassie reached London last week bravely smiling and heavily perfumed. En route from Palestine he had been transferred from a British warship to a British liner, and the British Government insisted that his status was "strictly incognito...