Word: distant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HANGING JOHNNY-Myrtle Johnston-Appleton ($2). For a handful of silver, Johnny the Hangman hangs his friend, knowing him innocent. The horror of it clings, though Johnny escapes the indignant mob to a distant Irish village. He foreswears his occupation, and, a lover of love and beauty, falls in love with an affectionate but unimaginative woman. Practical, ambitious, Anna persuades her moonraking Johnny to earn occasional hangman's fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring...
...fitted with a clock work mechanism timed to explode at the instant when His Majesty was scheduled to pass. Kings, however, are too experienced to risk their lives by keeping to a time table known to every assassin. Therefore His Majesty was a good ten minutes motor ride distant when the bomb exploded. Though prudent, he is no coward. "Drive on," he said with compressed lips when told of the explosion, "Keep to the original route, through the Piazza Giulio Cesare...
...could be determined, however, the quake was about 4000 miles distant, and was estimated to have arisen in Mexico. This is the second disturbance within a month in that country, a severe shock having been recorded on March 22. The exact location of the disturbance will be known in a week, when records of seismographs throughout the country have been compared in Washington. The double quake was probably caused by two strata of rock slipping simultaneously...
Harvard University and the Pathé Film Co. agreed, last week, to the formation of the University Film Foundation. Pathe will do the financing and shoot the pictures in distant crannies of the globe. Harvard will furnish a site for a laboratory on its campus; its faculty and students will help in putting the films together. Thirty films are expected to be finished by summer. Two-thirds of these will show home life among obscure peoples of Africa, Asia, the South Sea Islands, etc. The rest will show continents emerging from oceans, being eroded by volcanoes, water falls, floods. Explorers...
...little American house brings a little orphan child a Rumanian doll. As soon as the child takes the gift in its arms the doll comes to life and starts to sing Rumanian songs. The child is fascinated. Then, as if by magic, the doll whisks the child away to distant Rumania...