Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wise Old Man of Greece" (Venizelos), a man who means as much to Greece as Woodrow Wilson meant to the U. S., took place in a little bedroom in the ex-Premier's residence at Athens. Here four doctors examined him and after a muttered consultation in one corner of the room they returned to the bedside and told their patient that he must give up his political duties and quit Athens for his health's sake...
...Next Corner. A young American wife (Dorothy Mackaill) whose husband (Conway Tearle) is in Argentina finds that castles in Spain are dangerous places for dalliance. The Spaniard (Ricardo Cortez) who entices her to one, is shot as the betrayer of another girl. Thereupon she decides she really loves her absent husband. Flying to Argentina, she is pursued all the way by the dead man's valet (Lon Chaney) who also practises love-making with her. To gain his ends, he waves an incriminating letter over her for reel after reel. She wears herself and the audience out debating whether...
Borrowing a friend's automobile, he bucks traffic at Philadelphia's busiest corner. Result: one broken arm for a traffic officer, one damaged trolley car, one bent automobile, one gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...
...motion-picture actress (Catherine Owen). --Audience employs opera glasses at this point. Thereupon the past and the present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic attitude. Heroine rushes in, and the future is prophesied in the usual way. (Curtain...
...number of close shots. The Freshmen began to score late in the first period. The line brought the puck within striking distance of the cage. Scott let drive and narrowly missed the net, but Burnett captured the rubber on the rebound and sank it deep into the far corner of the goal. Coady made the winning point from quarter ice when there was but five minutes to play...