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Word: countryboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young clubmen from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 28, 1927 | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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