Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollywood Revue (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is good-humored, fast film vaudeville, with nice tunes and without a story. There are some new tricks in it. When the master of ceremonies looks for Bessie Love he finds her in his change-pocket; a lilliputian Marion Davies appears with a chorus of giant Grenadiers, later grows up to normal size. During one of the color sequences there is a trick with perfume; the spectators sniff-is it possible?-yes, they smell orange blossoms. Gus Edwards sings "Lon Chancy Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out;" Norma Shearer...
...French answer to Britain and Germany has been voiced by alert Jean Tillier, assistant director of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada: "We are going to build a super-fast ship. I won't tell her speed, but she will be very much larger and faster than anything afloat today. The plans are now being completed. The date for the laying of her keel has not been set, but we know about all the other ships and we are certain that ours will be both the largest and the fastest...
...Emilio Fernandez, defender of Cumana. Minor generals on both sides strewed the sand. When a government airplane flew overhead, raking the landing party of filibustered with machine gun fire and dropping bombs, General Chalbaud's surviving son and followers climbed back aboard the Falke, fled from Cumana as fast as leaking engines would drive...
...Invasion of Manchuria by 10,000 Soviet troops with 30 field guns" was reported in an official Chinese communique. Simultaneously at Washington the Chinese minister, bald, bland Dr. C. C. Wu, announced that the Nationalist government was rushing 60,000 troops "to protect our territory from violation by Russia." Fast as cables could flash the Soviet war office at Moscow denied invading Manchuria, denounced the Chinese communique as "a malicious invention to screen Chinese attacks...
George Young, British Labor Member of Parliament, said: "I am aghast at realizing how far and how fast the American and British ships of state have since the war come athwart each other's course and are today heading for a collision...