Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are two kinds of war. . . . There are international and civil wars, and of these the civil is the more horrible. ... It is a fair question to ask whether the Soviet Government sets its face against civil war as resolutely as against international war. . . . For years past the whole basis for the Soviet world policy has been to produce armed insurrection amounting to civil war in every country where they can exercise influence...
...business domicile from Paris to Manhattan, next October. He will do business in a Park Avenue apartment, as unshop-like as possible. The sensation caused by this announcement was inferior only to that stirred some months ago, when M. Poiret appeared for the first time since boyhood with his face denuded of the dark, fascinating beard which every woman knew...
Such behavior may now seem frivolous and insane to all civilized persons; it would have seemed totally incredible to any Greek, at the time when the unknown sculptor made his statue. To the wise Greeks, who lacked the prurient estheticism of modern magazine cover art, the male face or figure was, in its more austere and tempered contours, perhaps a trifle more beautiful than its female counterpart. Either one, when dexterously transmuted into marble, could be regarded with an impersonal regard for its objective beauty. They, the sculptor himself, would not have regarded the performance of Greenville's citizens...
...Lovers. Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss. That is the major action of this pretty picture which once was Leather Face, novel of the Spanish invasion of Flanders, by the Baroness Orczy. It tells of a bailiff's son, purer than Galahad, bolder than Robin Hood, an unruly crusader against the Spanish governor. For peace the blonde niece of the governor married this leatherface. Set in a gentle glow of sentiment are mild bearded Spaniards spearing Flemish guards, and Flemish guards wetting Flanders fields with dark Spanish blood. And then Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss...
Song and dance for the weary: Funny Face, Show Boat, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', The Three Musqueteers...