Word: classically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...villain was in the heroine's boudoir. The music fits the scene, thus printing itself on the memory, since most people remember more easily by the eye than by the ear. The cinema, if it does nothing else, gives many thousands a fair knowledge of popular and classic melodies...
UNCENSORED RECOLLECTIONS-Anonymous - Lippincott - ($4.50). Degrees of anonymity are as thick as the classic leaves that strewed the brooks in Vallombrosa. Some authors veil their names for a variety of excellent reasons, among which is, probably the most frequent, the desire to increase a book's circulation by preying on the public curiosity. Other authors have less excellent motives, and sometimes don the domino of anonymity solely for protection...
Lajos Biro has contributed two diversions popular in Europe : The Highwayman and The Yellow Lily. Antonia, a recent play by Melehior Lengyel, is charted for production by the Frohmans. The Tragedy of Man, a noted Continental classic, is also confidently expected...
Later he paraphrases a celebrated classic to illustrate the sequence of disease transmission: "This is the germ of the bubonic plague...
...Sallie, heiress, of a town near Chicago, directed a young, sensitive man to build the ideal newspaper. Love and Melodrama interferred. Eventually the young man went to the hospital and Sallie to Europe, but only after they had performed some experiments in journalistic honesty which deserve to become classic...