Word: bested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it has become part of a general background. Spectators will await, without fear of disappointment, the moment when the bridegroom leads the girl into a mansion, and in answer to her awed question as to who owns this splendid place, explains that he has bought it for her! Best shots: Leading Man James Hall buying a taxicab; Miss Banky showing him the furnished rooms she has rented as their future home; a subway...
...that the clients of such an establishment would pay to see such inexpert dancing as Glenn Tryon's and Merna Kennedy's. Features of the cops-&-robbers subplot which once seemed original have been used so often in other films that they are stale stuff by now. Best shot: Evelyn Brent in evening clothes...
Through the market town of Arundel and up the Hill of Bury toward the ancient round grey towers of Arundel Castle traveled and trudged last week, in their traditional best, 5,000 town and country folk. Some had traveled 70 miles down from London; most had trudged from nearer homes in the West Sussex country which spreads its downs and rivers below high Castle Hill. All had come to be birthday guests of Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal & Chief Butler of England, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk...
...looks as if we shall hold the balance. That is a very responsible position and we shall make no unfair use of it. We certainly shall not use it in a haggling spirit, but for the best interests of the country. The King's government must be carried on, and it is essential that it should be steady...
France and Fascist Italy, with whom the Baldwin government had been on the best of terms, were depressed at the prospect of a change...