Word: abstractedness
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Interested spectators at this domestic duel are the Shales's suburban neighbors, a footloose wife and her browbeaten husband (A. E. Matthews). Good indeed is Actor Matthews' gloomy soliloquy on the virtues of the all-electric house he lives in, while pulling off & on a glove, a minute...
It is true that the newspapers and their supplements perform this function also, but all of their information is poisoned at the source by an uplift which distorts and inflames the faubourgs; if they are made privy to gin and the bright lights, they know them only as the tools...
The Man and the Moment (First National). Billie Dove re-establishes an oldtime tenet of picturemaking, to the effect that if an actress is good-looking enough she does not need to have stories written for her or to know how to act. Elinor Glyn was hired to make up...
Behind his hectic official acts, Sam lives a private life. His gracious but abstracted, unaccountable wife drives into a ditch and dies, leaving him more than ever dependent on Delphine, a mistress of effulgent dark beauty whose simple devotion he is continually driven to suspect by his millionaire's...
At Kings Bay they will erect for themselves temporary houses, the walls of which will be fortified with "Celotex." This Celotex is a synthetic wood made by the Celotex Co. of New Orleans by shredding sugar-cane residue remaining after the sugar has been abstracted. The shredded cane produces a...