Word: flagg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are, as he thinks, three of these. One, a girl, is a shy little songbird from Italy, whose mother was a reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English...
...cried when she heard of Tomlin's death. Now she said: "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh. . . ." A good many things made Rex to offend, and these were quietly deleted from the lives of Sam, her husband and from Flagg and Fern, her healthy twins. The picture of dancing satyrs, the little statue of Venus, the table wine, the Sunday rotogravures-one by one they mysteriously disappeared. Life began to be a queer, suspicious business. Fern was shipped away to school-she would not come back. Flagg overheard his parents quarreling viciously...
...Cooke '29; M. R. Gooper '27; L. A. Copeland '27; A. T. Coyle '27; F. B. Cutts '28; Sidney Darlington '28; E. P. Dean '29; D. L. Dickson '27; H. J. Donahue '27; H. B. Elkins '28; L. P. Feinberg '27; Robert Fienberg '28; William Finkelstein '29; G. A. Flagg '28; J. C. T. Flexner '29; H. F. Folland '29; J. S. Gallo '27; Samuel Gilman '27; Abraham Ginsburg '27; R. J. Goldwater '29; W. F. Green '28; J. L. Greenstein '29; D. S. Gruber '29; A. J. Harris '28; H. F. Hart '28; C. H. Hartwig...
...impostors, and from comrades into enemies, by the circumstances of being wounded and imprisoned, and of seeing Camilla Dame (heroine) walking in her pretty garden. Kirk Hale, the cousin to whom the author devotes most of his attention, is as thoroughly a blackguard in his way as was Captain Flagg of What Price Glory, the model hero-villain of all Park Row War fiction. Only, unfortunately, he is a dull blackguard, subject to long states of his author's laboring mind. Similarly Anthony Hale, the noble cousin: his silence is not eloquent...
...swearing, the manure piles, the pigs in the back-yards of French peasant cottages--all these hark back to former efforts. The opening scenes in Pekin and the Philippines started the picture in an extremely fine manner. The happy-go-lucky life of Quirt and Flagg among the women of the town was vividly rendered. In fact few domestic pictures have been so full of well-handled and sensuous scenes as was this one. From the Philippines the picture jumps to France, and Flagg, now a captain, is in the throes of another love affair from which he will ultimately...