Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began in the approved fashion, by telling a story: A little boy re turned from Sunday School. His mother doubted the surety of his learn ing. So she questioned him. Yes, God had made the world in seven days, and then made man, and man went to sleep in a garden. And while man was asleep, God took man's brains and made woman...
...Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, was ousted by the Persian Parliament (TIME, April 7), because he had "spent too much of his time debauching along the Riviera." Upon hearing the news, Ahmad wept great tears, "walked around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion...
Broadway After Dark. Another Cinderella story. Here a man-about-town, world-weary as all men-about-town are in the cinema, dresses up a little boarding house slavey in the height of fashion and turns her loose his society friends. Author and director seem to have scamped their theme, which is the familiar one of clothes making the woman, for they give spectators no scenes in which to determine "what's wrong with this picture." They furnish a quite human and interesting turn to a hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance...
...picture in indeed a family affair. Lottie Pickford, absent from the screen for several years, plays devoted handmaiden to her sister, while Allan Forrest, Lottie's husband, portrays the gallant lover who rescues noble Dorothy from the intriguing circle that would marry her off in the approved fashion of historical drama. Mary undertook the play, as she expressed it, to save herself from "being strangled in her own curls." More dramatic than usual, she has several powerful scenes with Clare Eames, who plays her favorite role of Queen Elizabeth with versatile sinuosity, as one born to make history...
...rule that allows the ball to be put in play from the three yard line after a touchdown instead of from the five will probably not accomplish its purpose of encouraging line plays unless premium is placed on scores made in this fashion," he said. "It is extremely difficult to make three yards through the line at any time, and when opposed by a stiff, goal-line defense, it is next to impossible...