Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simba. In Hollywood, animal pictures are held by the higher actors and actresses in some disdain. It is not considered utterly artistic to be cast opposite an ele- phant, or a cassowary or even that mental giant of cinema artists, the police dog, But Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, not essentially cinema performers, are free from the prejudice. Their actors are all animals, wild, and photographed in their native state in Africa. Mr. Johnson is a wanderer of some eminence, having at an earlier date been associated with Jack London on the cruise of the Snark in the role of cook...
...week were sent three thick volumes from the New York Public Library. We, famed Colonel Lindbergh's account of his most famed escapade, had been translated into braille type for blind readers; these were the first impressions of the translation. Helen Keller read them slowly because, carrying her police dog puppy downstairs a few days before, she had fallen and hurt her arms. A dog sat beside her as she read, looking with bright uncomprehending eyes at the book she held. Last May, when the world was in an uproar over Charles Augustus Lind- bergh's flight, Helen Keller...
...complex characters. Denise, egocentric wife of a self-made man, is a neurotically dissatisfied Hedda Gabler. Denise's shadowy longings finally take form in a kind of worship of her own expectant motherhood, and crisis-inspired, she joins the Roman Church. She has a pet cocoon of a Hop Dog moth which she cherishes as a symbol of her belief in life in the chrysalis. When the Hop Dog emerges her vague urge for fulfillment will be realized. For Denise, however, it is never realized. The moth perishes due to her neglect, and her child, her ultimate justification, dies stillborn...
...certainly do not want my child to becomes a singer or an actor, because professionals lead a dog's life. An operatic career requires an iron constitution and means continual travelling around; people think we just have one grand time right along, but we really have to live almost exclusively for others, and our performances must come off whether we are dead or alive...
...being pursued in England. It is a supposition that parallel lines and navies never meet. A maritime empire with turbulent peoples spread over the world, Great Britain uses such a navy for shepherding its Hocks; its twin in the United States is an expensive and nearly useless watch-dog. Because of the failure of pacifistic statesmanship, nearly nine-tenths of the country's revenue is poured down the gullet of Mars. But even this could be borne, as it has been borne, if it were not for the alarming trend that prophecy and propaganda are taking...