Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turning back to a page of Fifteenth Century history, one may read the famed Bull of Pope Alexander VI, whereby "The New World" of the Americas was pontifically divided between the most Catholic sovereigns of Spain and Portugal-the latter getting Brazil. Some three centuries later Napoleon drove John VI out of Portugal, and that monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently...
...sound box; his three words were transmuted to a jiggly streak of light on a photograph film; the film sent to the Los Angeles Bell Telephone telephotograph† station; the jiggly light streak transmuted to electrical impulses and sent across country to Manhattan where they were changed back to a streaked film; and that film prepared and inserted into the Alias Jimmy Valentine picture. Conceivably, but not yet practicably, Actor Haines might have spoken over long distance to Manhattan, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saved several steps in picturing his voice...
Peru's Circumnavigators. Intrepid Peruvians, Carlos Martinez de Pinillos and Carlos Zegarra, bought a Bellanca plane in New York and last week started to fly from Lima, Peru, back to Manhattan. But not by the shortest way. They are first circumnavigating the western, southern, and eastern edges of South America, stopping at the capitals of the various countries. Santiago, Chile, was their first visiting place...
...killing Mima for her crimes. The forester refused to do this, restrained by the little grain of goodness that remains in mortals, however debased they may be grown. The devil's machine, a failure, tottered and crumpled all over the stage and Janos, the forester, escaped through it, back to his wife who was waiting dinner for him. Interesting and incredible, the play was chiefly remarkable for the stage devices it contained; stage devices, since the invention of the cinema, are less potent than they used to be to evoke illusions and it was in displaying his unique skill...
...would be difficult to trace National Biscuit Co. back to a saucer of wheat, though its' original baking companies presumably started with a loaf of bread. The company was formed in 1898, from a merger of three already large baking companies...