Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fighting Love (Jetta Goudal, Henry B. Walthall, Victor Varconi). A young Italian beauty marries her father's friend to escape a cad. The villain forthwith orders her husband to Tripoli. Following him into the desert, she falls in love with her handsome officer escort, marries him when her husband's death is reported. Her husband returns, only to commit convenient suicide. Endless shots of Miss Goudal staring vacantly into space between scenes of bloody Arab forays, slow up the action...
...student committee will have charge of the program for the day while the ushers will escort the returning graduates about the College in the morning, after the meeting in the new Fogg Art Museum. The program, which starts at 10:30 o'clock in the morning, continues through an informal entertainment following a buffet supper at the Harvard Club of Boston in the evening. In the afternoon, after luncheon at the Harvard Union, all those attending Graduates' Day will be the guests of the Harvard Athletic Association at Soldiers Field...
...Cornish of Manhattan, 80-year-old widow of one of our vice presidents and since his death an indefatigable traveler, had arrived safely at Johannesburg, South Africa, after a 4,000-mile motor trip from the Mediterranean shore of the continent, through the interior, accompanied by no white escort save her cousin, a Miss Hooper. Despatches related how, camping one night near a native road gang, Mrs. Cornish heard a man-eating lion roar, then die of bullets; how, lost in wildest Ukamba, her reserve machine broke down, obliging her to sit up amidst zebras, gazelles, hyenas until midnight, when...
...prepared to appeal to the woman smoker. Manufacturers, fearing that such an act would precipitate a rabid anti-cigaret crusade, have not yet published advertising with pictures of a woman smoking. The nearest approach was the Chesterfield advertisement, wherein a charming damsel on a moonlight night asks her escort to: "Blow some...
Come live with me and my two daughters, Peaches! (Nisi nihil mortus) I'll renta car and tell reporters That where we go, they shall escort...