Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deliberately to hurt the serious reader, to lacerate his peace of mind-such is the present avowed purpose of Count Hermann Keyserling. "I hope," writes this big-boned Latvian Count, who has penned two U. S. best sellers,† "I hope that all Pharisees, all Philistines, all nitwits, the bourgeois, the humorless, the thick-witted, will be deeply, thoroughly hurt. . . . [My purpose is] to demonstrate the absurdity of all nationalist self-glorification...
Paul had been honor man in Al's class at St. James Parochial School. "He got," recalled Al, "100 percent in everything except deportment and that doesn't count...
Trans-Atlantic airways, the degradation of the press, State Legislatures, the Negro, the farmer, formed part of the cosmic program, the vocalists including, besides great historians and divers experts, an Italian count who long ago had a good position in Italy...
...Engaged. Count Folke Bernadotte, nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden; to Estelle Romaine Manville, Manhattan debutante, descendant of Jeoffrey de Magnavil, ally of William the Conqueror; in Pleasantville...
Loves of an Actress is a tragedy, with Pola Negri reclining on a soft couch most of the time. She loves them all-bankers, counts, newspaper owners-but, deep down, she is disgusted with men. Then along comes a lean-hipped young diplomat (Nils Asther) and the Lady of the Couch is stricken with love-at-first-sight. "What does it matter?" she cries, "A man-a woman-before them the highway of life." But, alas for the highway, a rejected count threatens to reveal her past and ruin the young diplomat's career. Death comes to the couch...