Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listed on both Pacific Coast and New York boards, and the prices sometimes vary east and west. Financial news printed in Eastern business newspapers reaches California too stale to be news. And Westerners certainly deserve fresh financial news. So with these things considered, we thought it would be best to inaugurate a separate Pacific Coast edition." Western brokers viewed the plan with approval. Well known to them is the man selected to be the Journal's editor-H. C. Hendee, head of Dow, Jones's Pacific Coast financial ticker news service, once a newspaper reporter on the Detroit...
...loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot: The squadron taking off at dawn in pursuit of the Nicaraguan bandit Lobo (Sandino...
...head of the man who could talk in any voice except his own. Director James Cruze, however, seemed convinced that he was directing a story about show business. Before long he neglected the ventriloquist to supply atmosphere in the form of chorus girls dancing, getting dressed, chattering, rehearsing. Best shot: the Great Gabbo going crazy because he cannot be himself...
...Fritz Kortner's interpretation of the Tsar, for it is the role with which Emil Jannings scored in The Patriot. The malevolence of Kortner's Tsar is never mitigated by the lunatic innocence which Jannings managed to suggest. Both are vivid; you must decide for yourself. Best shots: Tsar Paul fascinated by the first harpsichord he has ever seen, wriggling underneath it. ... Tsar Paul scanning the room with only the whites of his eyes...
...Patriarch is out again, in 24 revised, amplified, revivified volumes. From "A to Anno" to "Vase to Zygo" a new, humanizing, journalistic touch is felt. To whom does a good journalist turn for the best account of the big prizefight? To the champion, of course. In choosing the author of the article on Boxing the U. S. advisors were doubtless less impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write...