Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballots must, in order to count in the election be in the mail by tonight at the latest. Ballots must, in addition be signed, as all unsigned ballots will be discarded...
Since the Council can act only by unanimous vote, it was rendered powerless to admit Germany without Brazil. The Spanish representative, Count Quinones de Leon, intimated that he was instructed to make a similar demand on the part of Spain. Before this obstinate blockade the Great Powers halted...
Belle Bennett as Mrs. Fleming has been out of an evening in 1914 when her husband, Colonel Fleming, returns unexpectedly from his regiment. He discovers that she has been gambling bell, money and time with Count Deoder. Being a soldier he refuses to arbitrate and declares he never wants to see her again. At just that moment someone knocks at the front door. It is a despatch, ordering immediate mobilization...
Belle wastes ten years trying to win enough at the table to pay for her daughter's education. 1926 finds her at Monte Carlo and Lois a very entrancing young girl. "Count Feodor returns to see the daughter, a suit naturally not attractive to the mother. Luckily a young man from Grand Rapids Furniture, as he calls it, turns up to outrival the "homme du monde" and the story ends happily when Colonel Fleming, friend of the Grand Rapids youth, saves Belle from suicide and begs forgiveness for his prewar wrath...
Lowell Sherman plays the villainous Count, while James Kirkwood wears the Colonel's epaulets. Ben Lyon, however, is the luckiest of them all, since he carries off the heroine...