Word: calhoun
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...knows only the law of the gun. It is easy to foresee that the girl, with her strait-laced notions about the dastardliness of shooting even in self-defense, is herself going to be faced with the problem of killing a man, before her brain clears. Then Alice Calhoun feels free to love John Bowers, though he claims three murders to his credit. The photoplay is not bad for its type, though an outstanding feature is the utter absence of juries after each homicide...
...misdemeanors there was no talk of the pedantry and dry formalism of debate; against the fire of intense personal conviction and the crusading zeal of a diligent investigator even the aristocratic aloofness of the Lords would not prevail. And when Webster's thunder was answered by the dying Calhoun through the lips of a fellow Southerner the nation hushed to hear the last words of the giant antagonists...
...large cast is required to interpret the changing phases of the action. With the exception of Mary Carroll as Daughter Potter, its selection seemed shrewdly accurate. Notable portraits are contributed by Catharine Calhoun Doucet and Josephine Deffry...
...Alice Calhoun is the girl and makes the unfortunate error of too precise and obvious make-up for a simple, pioneer primrose. But the men are men and the openness of the scenic spaces is only exceeded by their width. Such productions are harmless to all; entertaining to millions...
...inexorable. Two men, Commander William C. Calhoun and Lieutenant Commander Seed, will be among those tried by court martial, and will lose their commands because of this report. Yet the same report asked that official letters of commendation be given these two for " coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability," for "great bravery," in meeting the emergency after their ships had dashed on the rocks...