Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last years endeavoring to avoid unwelcome notoriety and the gushing missives of American flappers incurred because of the fact that I happen to be the only American officer in the Legion and of the false romantic reputation which the Legion has acquired in America due both to the absurd cinema productions which have attempted to picture our life and the mendacious writings of Christopher Wren...
Senator Barkley went on about cinema, the Scripps-Howard press and a variety of matters, including chinaware. Had the Secretary of Commerce called a meeting of china manufacturers last year and suggested they could raise their prices...
Like Candidate Hoover, who had denied a report that he would campaign for nomination by cinema and radio, Candidate Smith denied that he would leave New York until after the Houston convention. He was soon excused, to let the Committee hear from his campaign manager, George R. Van Namee. "Pleased to have met you all," was the Candidate's salute as he retired to a spectator's seat...
Belgians had a second chance to cry "milksop!" last week, when famed Art Patron Otto Kahn resigned as a member of Manhattan's unofficial Advisory Film Committee because it had sponsored the showing of the British cinema drama Dawn (TIME, March 12, 19), which depicts the shooting of Nurse Cavell in Belgium with realistic Teutonico furore. When the film was shown at Brussels it was received with tranquil approval. In England the Baldwin Cabinet made every effort to have Dawn suppressed; but it was finally approved by the London municipal authorities and shown, after emasculating cuts, without untoward incident...
...cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles Chaplin are shown. Bare arms and bare legs at a revue move like machinery. A bit of Beethoven. A bar and an arm tightening about a waist. A swirl of skyrockets. A sudden...