Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buses. Out of Washington, D. C., rolled two spanking motor buses, red, white and blue, laden with loudspeakers and literature. One had the same destination as the eastbound Hoover Special-West Branch, Iowa, the Hoover birthplace. The other rolled for Providence, R. I., to campaign with Curtis. This new ballyhoo was called "garage-storming...
...load and boats dock, where beery workmen lurch home along cobbled streets and where the world of art is chiefly represented by ancient and execrable examples of the cinema. Why then should anyone want to own a theatre in Hoboken, N. J.? Famed Author Christopher Darlington Morley (Where the Blue Begins, Thunder on the Left) knows, for last week he bought one, the Rialto, of which he said...
...came off, an inverted bowl of bakelite. Exposed was a crazy-quilt of skin patches, splotched with blue and red and white, and pulsating. Norman Douglas' skull, rotting from a 5.000 h. p. electric shock two years ago,* had been removed piece by piece. For each piece his surgeons-Drs. R. E. Gaby and K. G. McKengie of Toronto-had grafted a piece of skin from his thighs to what remained of his scalp. Frailly covered thus was his brain...
...intrepid scientists will not live entirely bleak and barren lives. They may improve their minds. For light reading, they will have: The Little Blue Books (1,280 volumes donated by the Haldernan-Julius Co.), the Harvard Classics, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling (Doubleday, Doran), a dictionary (Merriam...
...film which came out of all of this is prettily produced, but fails to surprise. It is the old tale of white men's hellish conduct among South Sea natives. Dr. Lloyd (Monte Blue), a good man gone to drink, is set adrift on a pest ship by his enemy, Pearl Trader Sebastian. The sea casts him upon an island, whose inhabitants have never before seen a white man. Dr. Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they...