Word: demy
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...mother lured him to her room. Honor and duty both satisfied. Saad played an Arab hero's part in the ensuing pillage. Somehow Evanthia escaped him, but back in the pleasant pasture-lands her image gave him no rest. When a madman's prophetic maunderings reminded Saad of his demi-Christian heritage he dropped his new-won fame and trudged back to dangerous Kasir. As a pretended blind man, a pretended Christian convert, he saw Evanthia again. His bloody end was happy...
...When our people have grown sufficiently weary and dissatisfied with the present orgy, which is, after all, only a rather poor imitation of what our boys saw in the demi monde of continental cities, as our racketeers are only imitators of Les Apaches, we shall gradually regain our balance and our good sense...
...given no previous indication of brilliance. After bossing Gloria Swanson in her most recent and best picture The Trespasser, he has done an even more painstaking job for Nancy Carroll, whose previous film experience has embraced few parts more taxing than the leads in Honey and Sweetie. In The Demi's Holiday she plays a little adventuress who, in cahoots with a salesman of farm equipment, sets about fascinating the respectable son of a rich farming family. From the Chicago hotel where their meeting takes place, the story moves west to a shadowy, oldfashioned mansion on the farm lands, showing...
...Bebe Daniels, she indulges in the flippancies of a semi demi-mondaine and ends up by landing a sailor with a hefty punch and talent in harmonica playing. If this picture does nothing else, it makes the feature seem better by comparison...
...Master of Forty Sauces," hovered majestically. Quick was the Press to pick up this dining place as a likely morsel for public fun. Its menu prices were broadcast: chicken okra soup 65?, baked lobster thermidor $2, lamb stew $1.70, royal squab en crapaudine, $2.75, baked potato 450, coffee 45?, demi tasse 50?. Jokesters insisted that the park air was still free and that the poor did not have to pay anything to watch the rich dine in their park. To point the issue even more, on the day the Casino opened, 93 ordinary citizens were haled to court, fined...