Word: colleens
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...ostracised and in revenge joins the British "Black and Tans." A threatened raid on his former fellows brings him to his senses in time to warn them of it, and lead a counter-attack. Romance winds its way unobtrusively through the story in the person of a lovely Irish colleen (Margaret O'Connor), also a fiery patriot...
...colleen?" the Vagabond repeated several times, much like a badly-scratched phonograph record. He had learned that repetition was the polite way of confessing ignorance. With no little sense of awe and appreciation of his luck he was walking with Byron Piccup along the bechildrened pavements in front of Dunster House; a few feet ahead lay their destination in the form of a lighted, whistling popcorn and hotdog stand. Yes, with Byron Piccup...
...Every girl--colleen, pardon me -- is a type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...
...film includes among its large cast such once well known screen figures as Lillian Gish, Monte Blue, Lillian Langdon, Eric von Stroheim, and Constance Talmadge, while Douglas Fairbanks and Colleen Moore appear as extras...
Despite the fact that he went to the Harvard School of Business Accounting, warbler Dick Powell, who takes the part of the wealthy scion of the Ames family in "Colleen", does not realize that six and nine make 15 until Ruby Keeler, of the baby voice and muscular legs, reminds him of that fact. From this start a beautiful friendship grows until we find these two winsome lovers, Donald and Colleen, united after tremendous difficulties in the same clinch which so pleased old maids and unrequited lovers in "Forty-Second Street", "Annapolis Farewell", and "The Gold Diggers...