Word: closed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came close to preventing a whitewash in the second period, actually checking up a point but the score was disallowed. The referee's whistle had blown before Whitmore dubbed one in because of a penalty on Stubbs. The remainder of the game was slow, except for an occasional rally, both teams tiring rapidly...
After this barrage of shots B. U. settled down and kept her own net free from danger until near the close of the period. Then, with less than a minute left to play Cunningham took the puck single-handed through the entire Terrier defence and sent a sizzling shot past the goalie from the left side of the net just as the period ended...
...upon the now rather shopworn world war, he has built up a suspense altogether foreign to most movies of today and managed with rare ability to sustain interest to the end. So far have the age-old strictures of producers been disregarded that the picture is actually allowed to close with the hero thwarted in his attempt to win the woman he loves. The rest of the plot has features equally unorthodox which should make it attractive to the most blase patron of the cinema...
...throughout the show. The occasion when it is most effective is the Christmas scene in the trenches. One hears the Italian soldiers sing "Stillige Nacht" across the battle-fields to their German opponents and the latter reply. Doubtful as the authenticity of this scene may be, it comes as close to real beauty as the talkies have yet approached, and it is especially unfortunate that poor reproduction spoils the singing in several places...
...close of Lloyd George's magnetic flapdoodling, the House surprised itself by passing this resolution: "In the opinion of this House the government should use its utmost efforts to stimulate international action for the study and eventual preparation of a treaty for the comprehensive reduction and limitation of naval, military and air armaments, including war material as well as personnel...