Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unforgettable history also held the megaphone on The Pony Express. He did not talk so convincingly to his actors; the story was wrong; something was the matter. For several reels the picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest Torrence and Ricardo Cortez perform acceptably. Betty Compson, the love interest, is rather less effective...
...Receive baseball scores of the afternoon games. . . Chambersburg below looks like a picture under a Christmas tree, and we think of the kiddies at home and wonder if they are asleep. Throw kisses to Tom and Billy from the ship in the air. . . See lightning to the south. . . Crossing Pennsylvania and its beautiful farms but we cannot see their beauty owing to the darkness, but hope for better things tomorrow...
...finances until all hours. Two well meaning bachelor friends of his set about to prove to his wife that it is possible for a man and woman to spend a night together in a house without alarming developments. To this end they feed her much champagne and she falls asleep in the bachelors' library...
Tired pianists who have practiced all day until their fingers are fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they...
...Dream," difficult to describe. All these are transcended by the most colossal exploitation of the Mammy song ever attempted on the U. S. stage, a skit entitled "Mothers of the World." gentle matrons, in a series of cloistered niches, touched with a dim, a holy light, sing their infants asleep, while above their heads the prima donna, attired as a cherub, leads a choir of angels...