Word: brooding
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...decadent Italian prince, and adopted Beechy and Bun, offspring of his earlier alliance with a circus acrobat. When the Wheaters remarried (each other), cinema actress and Italian prince found further unsuitable spouses, all of whom harassed Judy with threats to carry off the "steps." Judy countered by kidnapping her brood, complete with nurses, to the Dolomites where Bachelor Martin was wooing a suave and lovely widow of the old school. Naïvely Judy demanded Martin's championship versus parents-which is all very well till he falls in love with her. He thereupon escapes to Africa...
...citizen fall sick in the Balkans or in Turkey. Let him brood upon slimy gutters, promiscuously expectorating citizens, and the greasy scum which swims upon his especially ordered soup. Let him grow sicker. But finally and mercifully transport him to a clean bed and a cheerful room in the American Hospital at Constantinople. He will then realize the special and comforting importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont...
After one day's respite following the restful days of a New York vacation the Vagabond furtively returns to his former haunts, the oppressive shadow of approaching divisionals hard upon him. All honor be to those hardy souls who braved the tormenting mirage of vacation to brood over notes, and outlines beneath the gaze of the everpresent Goddess...
...after the armistice, Raymond Hatton returns to America leaving his French sweetheart in charge of Wallace Beery. An edict that all young women marry immediately, or something similar, complicates things and Beery appropriates the woman in the case. Hatton come back and intrigue, duels and the hatching of a brood of ducks by Beery keeps the comedy of this fast team from losing impetus. See it if the jaded mind needs a stimulant. It is served on "Blue Plate," the stage attraction, which makes it more appetizing...
...Shrig, detective, has made sure that Fiddling Jackie, not Sir Marmaduke, murdered the disagreeable Squire Brandish; after Mrs. Marmaduke has died; after Author Farnol has once more made readers, of whom there will be many, pant with romantic excitement no less hard than did less hardy readers at The Brood Highway...