Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name and moral leadership the United States must protest against simplified English as a world language. The export of American movies to the Orient has already done untold harm in revealing to an unsuspecting people the depths of American degradation. If on top of these pictures there arrived a flood of more magazines in an understandable American, and a deluge of Hearst papers the thoroughly moral and harmless races of the world might well rise in horror in exterminate a degenerate nations...
Robert Anderson Magowan of Philadelphia, with $650 to his credit, has been appointed chairman of the Freshman Finance Committee. The sub-chairmen are Robert Kenneth Straus of New York City, George Putnam Sturgis of Milton, and Richard Thomas Flood of Brookline, in the order named...
...Wild Horses. A moderately worthy departure from the usual run of films, being a combination of Black Beauty with the forest fire of The Storm and with the waterfall scenes in any Universal picture. The scenes of the untamable equine lord of the plains plunging to rescue from the flood the man who saved him from the fire have been cleverly faked almost to the point of being Art. The horse who plays the leading role is so real that he makes the persons in the human story look like cinema actors...
Commencing on Wednesday the 1927 team will meet Pomfret, Loomis, Hotchiss and Choate on successive days. The list of men who are going in as follows: pitchers, Phelps, Gates, Clifford, Barnum, Robinson, Booth and Andrews; catchers, Duchin, Leaver and Tobin; infielders, Flood, Hamlen, Gross, Howard, Zarakov and Ellison outfielders Scott; Bailey and Bennett...
RAIN-A highly sexed and angry torrent against South Sea missionaries. Jeanne Eagels guides the flood with notable distinction...