Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...OFF?George Randolph Chester?Harper ($2.00). A pleasant picture of the cinema industry as conceived by the average fan. The hero, gifted with a winning smile, infallibility, a flat stomach and gangle shanks, sells his services to "Magnificent Pictures" at an initial salary of one dime per week and progresses in nine years to the dignity of a divorce scandal and his life-long ambition: "Isidor Iskovitch Presents." The story of his rise begins with the assembling of a $10,000-stake from seven Iskovitch uncles blessed with red beards and businesses of the varying styles to be expected from...
...World is Flat...
...Carpenteria, Calif., the brothers Rosall, Jesus and Mateo Manzano flung themselves upon D. Goena, cut him up about the head, were jailed pending news from his hospital. Goena, from the Mexican Winterland, had told the Mezani that the world was flat, had called them "devil children . . . crazy with false knowledge...
...smoking-compartment and it requires four policemen to keep the crowd moving as they file past his cage. Sermons are preached about him, a question is even asked about him on the floor of the House of Commons. And when that happens, as everybody knows, all England falls flat upon its face. The Orang and the Chimpanzee are frightfully jealous and glare wrathfully at him through the bars...
...dirigible is often considered to be a fair-weather craft, and?as such?unsuitable for continuous commercial operation. The second excursion of the Shenandoah since her accident (TIME, Jan. 28) would seem to be a flat contradiction of this viewpoint...