Word: angellic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pardon Me," and the opening chorus sang "Stranded," the words came more from the heart than do most musical comedy lyrics. All the world being divided in two parts, to wit, Broadway and other places, the cast was stranded in the rural half. And there was no golden-winged "angel" hovering near. Their fears melted when Actors' Equity met their immediate needs and in addition bought them tickets for New York...
...Cent is just about that successful. It tells about a Jewish butter-and-egg man who plays "angel" to a play so his daughter may be starred. One of the producers is Thomas Jackson, who functions as the detective in Broadway. The Triumphant Bachelor...
Captain Arthur V. Rogers, British destroyer of 32 German planes, jumped. He felt the canvas mechanism of his parachute start functioning.* He hit the ground, was picked up dead. Captain Rogers was testing the Angel of Los Angeles. He circled, went into a nose dive, saw the ground coming up to meet...
ALMA-Margaret Fuller-Morrow ($2). Here is a character less rare in life than in literature, an oversexed angel set down among men to minister to their wants as a slavey but never to be wanted for herself. Tall, strong, beautifully made, fine-skinned, middleaged, immaculate, actual Almas are "Cook" or "Nurse" in thousands of U. S. households. They go to the Scandinavian Church religiously. Their eyes grow moist easily over members of "the family...
Alias the Deacon (Jean Hersholt). As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the crowd by slapping down a royal straight flush for his own account, thus taking the largest poker pot ever staked in that town. With the proceeds he raises a mortgage, facilitates a wedding, stores up treasure in Heaven. Then he ambles into a box car and shuffles off to other...