Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Show (Warner). The faint, yellowish color which tints this film most of the time well suits a musical show. Betty Compson is pretty and so are most of the other girls. Ethel Waters sings in her husky, exciting Negro voice. The story of backstage life is tedious, archaic, complicated. The music is about what you would get in a drawing-room operetta. In spite of these drawbacks, this picture is the most interesting of its type to date. Best shot: the ballet coming down a flight of stairs in feathers...
From the wreckage, 19 small bodies were pried loose. Twoscore other children were carried to hospitals, faint with pain...
Boatswain James R. Ingraham, commanding a Coast Guard picket boat, shouted through the gloom of an early Florida morning last week at a fast little craft he had spotted on Biscayne Bay. "All right," came back a faint reply, but the boat, instead, went shooting off up Miami River...
...began the greatest endurance test since Dempsey beat Carpentiers. Two strong and husky entrants from that respected school across the Common, were to sit in opposite windows of a music store on Holyoke St., and play victoria records continuously until one or the other should fall asleep or faint of fatigue. To the winner the proprietor of the shop promised to award a handsome prize of twenty-five dollars, and to the loser a generous prize of ten dollars...
...General rose. A braided doorman solicitously took his elbow. "Blackjack" Pershing seemed about to faint. The commander of the A. E. F. brusquely brushed the doorman aside and stalked to the elevator, cock-robin once more...