Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fenway--"Seven Sinners", with Marie Prevost and Alice Brook, and "His People", with Rudolph Schildekraut: Reviewed in this issue...
...Seven Sinners" is not as important as Mr. Schildekraut's troubles in the Ghetto, but it is far more readily appreciated. Miss Prevost is given a chance to display her saucy mischievous talent in a hectic tale of thieves and thievery. Mr. Brook in his calm imperturbable way is called upon to sleep below a dripping shower in the bath-tub. There are momentary chances for Lubitsch subtlety which are ignored. But the direction has added instead a dash of slapstick. Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which...
...interested to stay here and listen to me, but I would like order." Listening to him in the gallery almost directly over his head was a lady in black-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. She leaned over the gallery ledge in close attention as he declared: "President Wilson would brook no opposition. He insisted that the Senate should sign the Versailles Treaty, creating the League of Nations, on the dotted line. He went to the country confident that he would win an overwhelming victory. I doubt if there has ever been a more striking example of mistaken judgment or a more complete...
...scrimmage with several men on the ice resulted as Cumings blocked Davis' hard drive. The puck trickled out to the boards, and while the Nassau forwards were searching for the rubber under Harvard's prone sentinel, Scott dashed up the right lane, swerved pass Wilkinson, and passed Cole-brook to put the Crimson ahead...
...score. With half a minute to go the whole Tiger pack came down the ice in close formation, but Chase robbed Davis of the puck, and with no one in front of him, bore down upon the Tiger goalguard. A goal seemed sure, but as the bell rang, Cole-brook topped off his evening's work, by meeting Chase in a fierce dive that prevented a score...