Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cournos migrated with his parents to Philadelphia at the age of 10. He was successively factory-hand, newsboy, journalist, author: The Wall, The Mask, Babel. Living now in London, his recreations are: "Reading the Greeks and Elizabethans, watching the folly and wonder of life, playing with pebbles on the beach...
Recoil. Psychology, which now and again finds a place on the screen, gets in some of its best work here. In this film transcription of Rex Beach's story, an American girl, forced by privation to become an adventuress, marries a wealthy man for his money, deserts him and seeks love with a crook. The avenging husband forces them to live together, threatening to expose the woman for bigamy, and then, as propinquity causes them to hate each other, the fight begins. Betty Blythe (in a blonde wig), Mahlon Hamilton and Clive Brook show some very human reactions...
...Warburton, Jr., of Philadelphia. His grandfather was the founder of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. His father continued as publisher of the paper. His mother was a daughter of John Wanamaker. The son, Barclay H., Jr., is a young man, curly-haired, fond of dancing, who frequently visits Palm Beach. He came to the gumchewers...
...Prohibition Party met also at Columbus only a day or two later. A few members presented a motion to dissolve the party, but it refused to be dissolved. It nominated for President, H. P. Paris of Clinton, Mo.; for Vice President, Miss Marie C. Brehm of Long Beach, Calif...
...Ariel put out to sea. A storm was brewing?a few days later Shelley and his friend were found dead on the beach. His corpse was "terrible to look upon for the face and hands and parts of the body had been eaten away by the fish." Upon a pyre, the last remains of Shelley were cremated in the presence of Byron and some friends...