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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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recites Douglas Fairbanks from the sound-device as prolog to The Iron Mask (United Artists), his sequel to The Three Musketeers. The voice, like all filmed voices, creaks a little, but the spirit which the poetry fails to achieve is incorporated in the superb acrobatics of the only living actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

In the darkness of the park, on the bridge watching the black swirls of the grim river, still and stark on the slab in the white morgue--the caprice of nature lives and dies. Life in the well of loneliness. Radclyffe Hall beckons with a sympathetic smile, a book in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WELL UNPLUMBED | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

The play becomes almost wildly funny when Hamlet and Ophelia, from a rival puppet show, visit the harlequinade. Ophelia's rue was never worn with such a glorious difference as by Marion Evensen. Hamlet, played by Richard Nicholls, dies with Pierrot's rapier through his heart and on his lips...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

Kristin, casually seduced by Erlend, so passionately loves him that she brutally jilts her own betrothed, forces Erlend's promised bride to suicide, marries Erlend herself. Then, goaded by the priesthood, her conscience slowly besets her. She carps at Erlend, embitters her seven sons, torments herself, until at last Erlend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Where the fangs enter, a sharp burning pain is immediately felt. It gets worse. The wounds bleed; the parts get blue and swell. Numbness sets in and spreads; vomiting begins; breathing becomes difficult; paralysis starts. The victim suffocates, dies. Each year some 5,000 such tortured deaths occur in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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