Word: briens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high blood pressure drama will recall this melo-sample of a few years back. The hero slides down the widely advertised trough of iniquity and gets the breaks working just before he pitches over the edge. For the outcome, the reader is referred to the title. George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill are the slider and the brakes respectively. The action roams just about all over the world, gets into opium dens and that sort of thing, and manages to make itself thoroughly exciting...
...obstacles only have slightly deflected Marconi's smooth advance: conjugal difficulties (in 1915 he married the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien who gained a divorce in April, this year), and a commercial scandal in England. In 1912 it was charged that Premier Asquith, Chancellor George and other Cabinet officers had profited improperly through promotion of the Marconi companies. The conclusion of the matter was that blame could not be attached to the inventor and that the Cabinet members had merely been "indiscreet...
Famed Elks present: Timothy McCarthy, 'Charles Grakelow, George Dunham, Daniel Kane, Rev. John Dysart, John Knapp, John O'Brien, Captain Albert Sampson, aged 93 (oldest Elk), tiny spotted calf from Norumbega Park Zoo (youngest...
Divorced. Julius Fleischmann (yeast), onetime Mayor of Cincinnati, by Laura Heminway Fleischmann; in Paris. Her friendship for Jay O'Brien, "Broadway (Manhattan) King of Hearts" and onetime husband of Mae Murray and Irene Fenwick, was said to have precipitated the decree...
Semon-he cannot make all the ice cream, so he makes the best. (P. 18.) The united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz...