Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast which enters into the spirit of the occasion with a rush. Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed by John Ferguson, Helene Dumas, Ella Houghton. It is good fun if you feel like hissing, cheering and stamping your feet unrestrainedly. Next door there is a brass-railed Bowery...
...wife's decision to stay with him after all, following an episode in which Stone holds the amorous Nils Asther against a tree at the point of his double-barreled tiger-rifle, while a real, terrifying tiger snarls toward the sound-device. Best shot-Greta Garbo drying her feet...
...Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody came to see the show, so finally he hired sleight-of-hand artists to do tricks in the lobby and attract a crowd. There followed many a theatre in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and eventual expansion into one of the world...
Sergius Wjarasmutkin was managing, last week, a small factory in his village in distant Vladimir Province, Russia. On the second floor of the factory was the only hall in the neighborhood, a room about 24 feet square, with tiny windows and one door, used as a storeroom for tools and gasoline and cotton waste...
Such journey, no tour de force, would serve to study the Arctic's floor. Some geologists believe that the waters rest in a huge basin, others that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...