Word: doves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not named Henry James, possibly the greatest of modern English language novelists and possibly greater than that. A victorian in "The American" but a contemporary modern (and a model impossible to copy) in "The Golden Bowl" and the "Wings of the Dove"! All modern English writers have copied him and aped him without success. The which has made many of them damn him! After him come Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. And possibly, too, Marcel Proust, as great but in a limited sphere and another tongue...
Senator Borah then rose and in a series of resounding periods made the peace-dove seem the most vigorous and promising of birds. It was the high point among his treaty utterances. The ladies in the Senate gallery were stirred. The Senate passed the treaty with but one opposing vote, that of Senator John James Blaine, Progressive Republican of Wisconsin. Two days later he was soundly rebuked by the Wisconsin legislature...
Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third...
Adoration. A Russian prince (Antonio Moreno), works as a waiter in a Paris restaurant, cherishing a revolver with three bullets in it-one for his wife (Billie Dove), one for a certain count, and one for himself. Miss Dove is photographed in clinging gowns, with turbans, without turbans, with headdress, without headdress. Before the end Mr. Moreno sees his mistake about the count. Best shot: General Alexis Muratov shutting up his shoeshine parlor...
...York Curb, announced that $3 was too high a price for Canadian Marconi shares. Inasmuch as Canadian Marconi was being quoted at $27, Sir Joseph's tow Opinion of -the stock shocked Marconi speculators. Dropping perpendicularly at a speed that left the ticker far behind, Canadian Marconi dove to 15½ before trading in it was suspended. The stock had been riding on a rumor that Radio Corp. of America was planning to absorb Canadian Marconi. Sir Joseph's $3 estimate virtually flattened this story; thus the bottom dropped out of Marconi. Upon resumption of trading, Canadian Marconi...