Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shields' face whitened, a spurt of scarlet doused his shirtfront, he tumbled to the ground. The onlookers were men of stone. Suddenly they all laughed loudly. Chagrined and crestfallen. Shields got to his feet. The laughter was hectic and cruel. Abraham Lincoln had loaded his musket with squashy, scarlet-juiced pokeberries...
...attack could be seen coming on. Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris. Last week, in Manhattan, they lurked in his innuendo, deadened the jollity that once beamed from his round Cheshire-cat-face...
Weary River. Richard Barthelmess has just the kind of pleasant tenor voice that you would expect from his face. "Weary River," the theme-song of his first sound-picture, is good enough to be fairly popular. Other films about crooks, however, have had far more interesting heroes than the gangster who develops such musical talent in the prison orchestra that his girl gives him up to let him have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts...
...Have him baptized at once!" ordered Husband Toral, "Otherwise I could not face my probable execution with a tranquil heart...
Another feature event scheduled is the meeting between the combined teams of Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge which will be held in the Stadium on July 13. Since the Yale meet is at new Haven this year, Dartmouth will be the only college to face the University runners in a dual meet in Cambridge...