Word: abouting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Lady Lies (Paramount). That a talking picture about a man and his mistress could be made both mature and witty is a proposition most cinema critics would deny. Yet this is such a film, directed by Hobart Henley, feelingly played by actors from the legitimate theatre. Claudette Colbert'...
Of course the British demands were not met in toto?as one would suppose from Chancellor Snowden's words?but only by about 82%. Moreover the concession won ($9,520,000 per annum) was relatively picayune, less than ¼% of the balancing figure of the British budget. These facts were...
Reporters who went out last week to get copy about Berlin's free civic lipsticks, rouge and eyebrow pencils, were tolerantly received by Dr. M. Gumpert, director of the Bureau and a plastic surgeon of renown. They did not quite understand, he said. There will be no free "cosmetics...
Aged 59. In 1870 a Masserano priest sealed two bottles of wine and stipulated in his will that they should go to the Pope who brought about the settlement of the Roman dispute with Italy. Last week 1,000 pilgrims from the Masserano district journeyed to Vatican City, delivered the...
When anything extraordinary and un- accountable has happened lately on the New York Stock Exchange it has become more or less of a habit to account for it airily by saying: "That's Chicago buying." Many an offerer of this glib information when asked what he means by Chicago, answers...