Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bouncer. Lieut, L. E. Hunting's plane was guilty of treachery, but the flyer returned good for evil. Going into a tail spin at low altitude, the plane hit the ground, bounced, but somehow he held it in the air. Realizing the landing gear was crushed, he scorned the safety of his parachute, circled, flew to nearby Kelly Field (San Antonio, Tex.)' and eased the ship down so gently that it stopped virtually undamaged...
...offered unsolicited praise to Jesse Lasky for the faithful realism with which the air maneuvers were pictured. The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman...
...Vice President Charles Gates Dawes exhibited scholarly interest in archaeology when he visited Panama last spring. He went home to Chicago bearing souvenirs from the Mayan ruins of Cocle Province. A stone elephant aroused his curiosity specially; also, a possible original of the see-no-evil, speak-no-evil, hear-no-evil monkey images of Japan...
...Those who think evil things of me say I dislike my daughter-in-law Helene [Mother of King Michael]; that I am jealous of her; that I wanted the regency; that I even begrudged little Michael inheriting the legal right to the throne. These accusations are heartlessly false. I love Helene and her child with all my heart. They have been deserted by their husband and father.* Shall I forsake them in this solemn, trying hour when Michael is about to ascend the throne? No. A queen's heart has greater love than that...
...coast from Monterey. Common sanity is dropping from him like a cloak that he may carry or not. His spirit runs naked to the spirit of the hills, of the "iron wind" on the sea promontories. He will be possessed of a god beyond the old ethic, "good and evil...