Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...
...cinema Skippy. The result so far, however, is only added testimony to Skippy's greatness. In spite of a Plot and a Social Thesis, which Mr. Crosby has introduced because most novels have them, Skippy stays about the same. He does not get selfconscious, as proved by the fact that in 335 pages he only utters once the phrase for which he is most famed, "Always belittlin...
...little theatres of the land are dens of morbidity and exoticism. This fact is always made apparent at Manhattan's annual Little Theatre Tournament. The seventh contest, held last week, was cut to the conventional pattern. Twenty amateur organizations competed, each presenting a one-act play. One group from Denver gave a horrific vignette by Eugene O'Neill in which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane...
...thriller Shall We Join the Ladies? This play, long a favorite at all-star frolics, depicts a British landowner of gentle mien and sinuous mind who has gathered about his dinner table twelve persons whom he suspects of the murder of his brother. He informs them lazily of the fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine, the men talk of poisons. There is a sudden feminine scream. The men rush out. The host quaffs his liqueur, slumps in his chair, dead...
...Director of Public Safety during the former regime of Mayor Curtis, organized the Canton underworld and exacted a toll of graft from all of its vicious activities and, when exposed by the News, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. I ask you to ponder the fact that Mayor Curtis is back on the job today at City Hall, the people's choice, as a result of a campaign of such demagogery as would give any intelligent or patriotic citizen mental cramps...