Word: brummels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Standish (Q. W. Burke, A. L. Castle, W. O. Faxon, W. R. Timken); second, Gore (H. L. Lash, B. Moore, L. M. Patterson, R. K. Vincent); third, Smith (F. Lewis, A. L. Mason, S. E. Shikes, R. J. Strauss); fourth, McKinlock (R. A. Biggs, T. J. Ewing, J. W. Brummel, J. S. Hartwell), Time...
...compare the 1908 and 1928 Republican platforms. The one Nominee Taft ran on was partly the work of a newly-eminent lawyer who had successfully prosecuted the Harriman railroad combinations and the Standard Oil Co. for the U. S.-Frank Billings Kellogg, then called "the Beau Brummel of the politicians...
Having established himself as the great lover, the successor to Rudolph and the close rival of John Gilbert, John Barrymore takes "Tempest" as his way of showing the movies that he can act. This picture repeats in a general way the tactics of "Beau Brummel". It lets John (we always called him John at school) spend the first half of the picture as a smooth lad, a lieutenant in the Russian army, and the second half as a shaggy, sunk-eyed 'Bolshevist...
...continued Mr. Hays, "yet not be so 'high brow' that they are unliked and consequently unpatronized Progress has been made but much remains to be done. The film companies cannot serve a vegetarian diet to people who want raw beef. In one of the largest theatres in Washington, Beau Brummel starring John Barrymore, lost $36,000. The following week "Flaming Youth netted...
...girl; the scene on board the ocean liner in which the stunted erstwhile prospector, now in purple and fine sable, lounges on the first cabin, his heart aswoon for a vanished barmaid . . . while down in the steerage the girl tosses on her midnight pallet, wishing for her hobo-brummel. . . .The audience in the Egyptian Theatre made comments on the picture. . . .An epic in comedy . . . Gloria Hale, his new leading lady, a most adept young actress . . . Good support by a comedian named Mack Swain . . . . An epic in comedy, written, directed, acted by a man who understands that the cinema...