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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pershing, "and I see you are younger than ever. You have a complexion like a girl, all rosy and fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Paris | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...drowned his wife before realizing that he loved her. It is based on the story, "A Trip to Tilsit," by the German Hermann Sudermann, and manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening. Janet Gaynor (seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls. But she overcomes these. Enchanted Isle. While a willowy debutante strives to elude an effete Italian Count, the robust forest ranger comes on from the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...chief adviser of a tent show in a travelling carnival; and the drama results from the unexpected appearance, during a summer vacation, of his son, who is being kept at a safe distance from the hula dancers and educated for the law. Nifty breaks off with his girl-in order to keep his son from finding out the state of affairs which prevails back-stage; and the girl takes her revenge, which is a bitter...

Author: By A. T. R. jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

...conduct in each successive scene is the logical sequal to what he has done and said before. John Irwin, as the son ignorant of the ways of the world, much more so of the ways of carnival dancers manages to be unsophisticated without being simple. Eleanor Williams, as the girl Nifty cast off, and Rhea Marting as the instrument she employs for her revenge on the son, set each other off splendidly...

Author: By A. T. R. jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

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