Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauteous singing maidens" is misleading also. Unless one has an eye for Guernseys and Holsteins, the beauty is unperceived. They have an appearance which might be termed serene, but is more accurately called stupid. The lack of clothing is also exaggerated, and not surprisingly so when one considers that nights are frosty in these parts except for three months a year. The removal of clothing annoys the police, and the "Douks" are wise enough to know this. Many people in the vicinity think the best means of combating the tendency to disrobe would be to ignore it. This...
...Democratic position in the House in six short years. On the Appropriations Committee he made a detailed study of Governmental machinery. He pitched House Democrats to victory in their annual ball game with Republicans. He bicycles daily to the Capitol wearing a narrow-brimmed hat cocked over his left eye...
Spurring full speed on a shaggy Mongolian pony, War Lord Tang flourished his repeating rifle, drew bead on a stationary target, riddled its bulls-eye with lead. ''Marshal Tang is also a dead pistol shot," boasted one of his officers. "He shoots with his left hand, with his right and with both hands at once...
...more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp eye for dramatic touches. Good shot: the hand of a corpse hanging out of a berth, swinging as the train rocks...
Melody (words & music by Edward Childs Carpenter, Irving Caesar & Sig- mund Romberg; George White, producer). During a hiatus between Scandals, Producer White has turned his attention to operetta. This one is handsome, melodious, appealing to ear & eye rather than funnybone. It is the sort of play in which, by 11 o'clock, most of the actors are impersonating their grandchildren, for it begins in 1881, ends in 1933. Everett Marshall, having assisted Evelyn Herbert to cuckold her high-born husband on her wedding night, departs with French troops to Africa and is killed off early...