Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lover of hundreds decides to marry. Before he can carry off his bride-to-be, however, the irresistible Juan must snatch her from the clutches of the notorious Borgias. In doing so, Actor Barrymore slashes and dashes through several reels that will possibly cause Douglas Fairbanks to bite his finger nails. With all due respect to the superb acting of Mr. Barrymore, no sane adult can be expected to accept such revolution of character and such extravagant heroics, unless some overpowering agency transports him into a world of pure illusion. But, as a girl in the fifth row said, "Still...
...Bordeaux, in a rue Ste. Catherine charcuterie (delicatessen), one Desirée Dumas sliced bologna. Her store cat watched harpy-like, leaped at a falling morsel, seized it, rushed outside, scuttled under the house. Mile. Dumas had sliced off her finger...
...Walsh, elected to the Senate in 1918, was the first Democratic Senator from Massachusetts in 68 years, the fourth in the history of the state. *This county in the Finger Lakes district is the stamping ground of the famed progeny of two sisters (Jukes) and two Dutch backwoodsmen. Sixty percent of this hereditary strain are idiots, imbeciles, harlots, murderers, thieves, perverts, felons, loons, sots, paupers, maniacs, etc. The Jukes have cost the government $1,308,000 in 75 years. "Boss" Brennan is no Juke...
...Philadelphia, Arne Borg, b10nd-eyed Swedish swimmer, crawled 880-yards in 10 min. 38 2/5 sec., a world's record. Expertly thrashing mincing waves, four young men spurted through the water one after the ather like successive finger snaps md established a new U. S. record for the half mile relay, hewing rff a full 16 4/5 sec. from the >ld mark of a little over ten minutes, at Philadelphia last week. They were Johnny Weismuller, P. McGillivray, Albert Schwartz, Arne Borg, all of different nationalities, all swimming for Illinois...
...occupied one of the only two chairs in the gondola. There had been a scene at Nome when Nobile had insisted upon his right as an Italian officer to send reports of the flight to II Duce and the world in general. Amundsen had stepped up and shaken a finger in Nobile's agitated face: "You are nothing but the captain. ... I want you to know we will have no more of this." Nobile had sent his despatches anyway- Amundsen had quarrelled with the Nome Nugget's editor over printing Nobile's account without its being checked...