Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WISDOM TOOTH?The thoughtful fantasy of a man who became a boy again for long enough to lose his job and win his girl...
...screen. The screen can, of course, do much better by a volcano than can the stage. The eruption in this picture is excellently emotional, if one has after hundreds of movies emotion left for natural disorders. The story is pretty feeble, with Miss Daniels playing the "native" girl and Mr. Cortez the handsome, clear-skinned lover. The volcano bursts all over the middle of the sweet sentiment and ends the picture vigorously enough...
...through the waters from the heights. Last week one such reported a body offshore. It was a big dead fish. A second reported another body. It was a dead seal. Her congregation last week abandoned hope of her living. Many have known her since she, a little Canadian Baptist girl of 17, ran away from home with the evangelistic troupe of Robert Semple.* That was 18 years ago. She became ordained in the Apostolic Church and evangelized on her own account so inspiredly that the June issue of the Bridal Call Foursquare Gospel, her personal magazine, ranks her with those...
then to writing, and got famous under the name of Mark Twain. The college man was unveiling a monument to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn done in bronze by Frederick Hubbard. He told how Tom Sawyer (who was really Clemens himself) had loved in the book a girl named Becky Thatcher, whose crinkling, twinkling jampot eyes had won him, whose enchanting ways had sung a song in his heart until he died. She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent...
...leaned over the counter to look with William Frank at her elbow. He got the string off, undid one fold of paper, another, then-a terrific explosion broke every window in the Three Lakes Tavern, wrecked the counter, the lobby, killed Proprietor Krubaech, killed Fiance Frank, mortally injured the girl...