Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steal pearls depends less on plot and more on dialog than most plays of its type. It is satirical, sentimental, witty. It set, in its season, a new fashion in drawing-room drama. It is as effective as a talking picture as it was on the legitimate stage. Although the manuscript has been followed so closely that if you look sharp you can catch in the picture the momentary pauses that marked the play's division into acts, it is not a photograph of a play. It is a reproduction in which dramatic values have been replaced by cinematic...
...late, quarreled with a man in front of the apartment before entering. In the room were many clues. The detectives took fingerprints, found that the assailant had changed from his own blood-spattered clothes to Mr. Eaton's, had left behind a razor and a block of wood. Although $4,000 had been stolen Scotland Yard did not think robbery was the sole motive. It was announced that two men were being trailed for "causing grievous bodily injuries." One J. Moore, 22, surrendered himself and was charged with deserting the Army, held for further questioning. The other, Roland Bateman...
...Education Society Clinic in Manhattan, to cure alcoholism, drug addiction, dietary ills. He hired a medical staff, advertised for patients, earned $500 a month. This vexed New York doctors who complained to the municipal board of health. His priesthood repelled investigation as it attracted him patients, especially female patients. Although he had licensed physicians on his staff, he frequently examined patients himself, persuading women (many have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except for stockings and shoes. To hesitant patients he sometimes declared that he was a graduate physician, although he had no New York State license. Usually...
...Author. Although Red Likker may sell well, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb is no booklegger. Cautious not to offend Cobb-clients, he leaves the great Prohibition novel a thing yet to be written. But Mr. Cobb in action is less cautious than Novelist Cobb. Says he, lately elected Chairman of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...
...begins with the nuptials of the two great T. & T.'s. In their imagination the romantics can already see the ceremony with two handsome groomsmen. Sosthenes Behn, tall, dark, native of the Virgin Islands, and Walter Sherman Gifford, slender, reserved, native of Salem, Mass. It is Mr. Gifford, although only 44, three years Col. Behn's junior, whom they see as godfather and president of the monster offspring, if and when born...