Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diamonds. In the U. S. they are liquor barons. Being rivals in business, in facial attraction, in drinking capacity, they love to cause each other physical and financial embarrassment. The final episode finds Mr. Gilbert piloting his rumrunner off the coast of Long Island, with a charming society girl (Joan Crawford) on board against her will. Out of the night comes Mr. Torrence, with his rough-and-rum-necks, to capture Mr. Gilbert & crew. There is a grand and gory fight just before the U. S. Coast Guard ship arrives. The rivals die in each other's arms, agreeing...
...bachelors. Said Miss Martha L. Connole of St. Louis: "Bachelors are selfish or they wouldn't be bachelors. They're afraid of assuming the obligations, financial and spiritual, of marriage. Women have a deeper sense of moral responsibility than men." Said Miss Mary Zapp of Pocatello, Idaho: "The modern girl seldom finds a man who meets with her approval as a companion and who still earns as much as she does." Mrs. Elva Wilcox of New Jersey said: "All men and women would marry if they could. It is all a question of romance, which some never find and others...
...brother Ralph, who dashed the cup and the bad lady from brawny Jim's lips, and told him he ought to keep training the night before the big race, perhaps they would have felt the same simple gratification as the audience when the unsung hero got the girl and ended the picture. Paid to Love (George O'Brien, Virginia Valli). The picture involves a mythical kingdom and a case of mistaken identity, but does better than might be expected considering these handicaps. One Gaby (Virginia Valli) is hired to teach Crown Prince Michael (George O'Brien...
...around Point Sur is already crowded with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father under...
...makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates her in literature only with stories concerning one Slippy McGee...