Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Number 7. Another English thriller has visited tired Broadway. Number 7 is the address of a forsaken tenement building which, in the course of a chilling melodrama, houses Scotland Yard detectives, criminals, innocents, relief comedians, all bent upon recapturing the Duchess's stolen jewels. Weird entrances and exits are effected through skylights, windows, doors. Eden Gray, as heroine, lends a touch of beauty. The play, though strictly according to formula, is fairly exciting...
...expedition's cinema camera. The hunters saw one huge reptile chase, catch and drag down a horse. Several specimens were shot and will be mounted for the American Museum. Three were taken alive by the method small boys employ to snare rabbits: a noose dangling from a bent sapling. The largest of the three escaped, traveling far faster than...
...simply because the nations holding nonpermanent seats on the League Council were not unanimously in agreement that Germany should be admitted to a permanent seat. Brazil, the popular villain of this obstruction, gave notice of her resignation from the League-effective two years hence (TIME, June 21). Spain, equally bent on obtaining a permanent seat, launched a campaign of pressure against the League Powers which culminated last week in the reopening of the Tangier question. (See INTERNATIONAL...
...abroad. In Rome she knew Mme. Montessori and wrote A Montessori Mother which was widely translated. Her two grown daughters-Mrs. Fisher is now 47-bear witness to an intelligent upbringing. Her study is on a Vermont farm. Other books that have come from it: The Squirrel Cage, The Bent Twig, Home Fires in France, The Brimming Cup, the U. S. translation of Papini's Life of Christ...
...Germany had exiled him. Again, Prince Metternich, please. . . Tristan und Isolde was accepted, rehearsed 57 times, abandoned-the tenor was incompetent. Vexed, Wagner produced Der Ring des Nibelungen. King Ludwig of Bavaria gazed on that pageant with vacuous wondering eye. He was no fool. Even Frederick the Great had bent the knee to Voltaire. Ludwig would have Wagner's exile canceled, would give him a house. Soon the rotund, drab little man grubbed with filthy hands in his own garden at Wahnfried, Bayreuth, Bavaria. He was building a tomb in that garden, near where Liszt slept. Perhaps his German...