Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis slums. A year or two of this and she is almost done. She forces an exit, and we next see her as a successful business woman in New York. On the eve of an advantageous marriage, she is overtaken by a lurking virus of her earlier obliquity, is driven to suicide...
...open boat with four Yaligans. While on this canoe trip they came across a tribe of the most primitive people in the world, still living in the stone age. Another strange tribe that Colonel Furlong tells of are the Ona Indians of Terra del Fuego. These Indians were driven from the open lands of the north by the white people. They have retreated, unconquered, to the impenetrable mountains and forests, and to the bog lands. He stayed alone with the Onas for some time, and explored their country, being the first American...
...drowned by the unfavorable exchange. But the American with a few dollars can live cheaply and afford to sing for next to nothing. Thus you will find Americans in nearly all the opera houses. They shine mightily in the absence of the good native artists who have been driven into foreign lands...
...result is that the American merchant flag was driven from the high seas before the War and will be again driven from the seas unless Congress is prepared to pay for the cost of the restrictions it imposes...
...Mailman. A very small and energetic group of citizens are intent upon rousing the large and lethargic population to the rescue of its postal servants. Apparently mailmen are distressingly underpaid, overworked and ill provided for by pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...