Word: beau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open doors, and report accomplishment of necessary duties; but always because they are obliged to. The essence of the robot lies in its being compelled to do things. His very automatonism implies inevitability and consequent compulsion. How blind are they, therefore who would link a robot with the masterful beau geste which fills an entire blue book for the simple run of the thing. Only humanity in its most sparkling moments could produce so shining an example of the spirit "pour ie sport...
Sued for Divorce. Noah H. Beery Jr., cinema villain (Beau Geste) of Los Angeles; by Mrs. Marguerite W. L. Beery, who charges that Villain Beery continued his "villainous conduct" at home...
...occur to him to compare the 1908 and 1928 Republican platforms. The one Nominee Taft ran on was partly the work of a newly-eminent lawyer who had successfully prosecuted the Harriman railroad combinations and the Standard Oil Co. for the U. S.-Frank Billings Kellogg, then called "the Beau Brummel of the politicians...
Having established himself as the great lover, the successor to Rudolph and the close rival of John Gilbert, John Barrymore takes "Tempest" as his way of showing the movies that he can act. This picture repeats in a general way the tactics of "Beau Brummel". It lets John (we always called him John at school) spend the first half of the picture as a smooth lad, a lieutenant in the Russian army, and the second half as a shaggy, sunk-eyed 'Bolshevist...
...With Beau Geste, Christopher Wren roused such wholesale devotion to the gallant Brothers Geste of the French Foreign Legion that he has found it necessary to pronounce two post mortems-Beau Sabreur, and now Beau Ideal. No Conan Doyle, facile at reviving favorite characters, he is nevertheless faithful in concocting new thrills, new astounding coincidences, new bad puns, and pinning them to the surviving Geste-two others having already died elaborate deaths...