Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death of another, but that grinning grim reaper is defeated at last by the triumph of reason. This is to say that the denouement allows the hero to marry the heroine, and live happy ever after...
When the militia was called out and the strikers were told to keep back. Red. in order to impress the girl, stepped forward and was shot. With this unfinal denouement the wandering tale wanders...
Voyaging again to New Haven, scene of its 4 to 1 victory over Yale, the University hockey team concludes its season tonight with a game in whose denouement the Great God Jinx may play a master hand. A Crimson triumph would mean the first humbling of the Big Blue since 1928, a tie leaves Harvard still with the edge, defeat spells another stalemate similar to that...
...manages to think up a fairly entertaining story to go with them. This time it is about a scapegrace adventurer (Robert Montgomery) and the admiral's daughter (Madge Evans), whom he marries after meeting her in the store where he is a tobacco salesman. To arrange a felicitous denouement, Lonsdale has his hero write a play which, if it is anything like Lovers Courageous, is skilful, insignificant, likeable. Good shot: Montgomery and Evans eating their dinner-a steak, which Montgomery particularly enjoys because he thinks he has successfully concealed the fact that it was stolen...
...pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts. By the time you have struggled after Inspector Andrews through tortuous experiments to his triumphant conclusion you will have snapped at so many red herrings by the way that you will welcome the not altogether probable denouement...