Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requires a naive temperament to follow without impatience the "Hinge of Heaven" plot progress. The girl Sally is supposedly a businesslike per- son but she insists on several hundred pages of futile wing-fluttering before her cheek is "mashed gorgeously" on Richard Clarke's waistcoat buttons. Whatever suspense exists, the reviewer did not discover...
...from anger to glee and redoubled its editorial sniping at "Mabel" and "sectarianism." More serious was a cartoon published broadcast by the pro-Hoover Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, showing a church daubed with "Politix" and the G. O. P. spanking a naughty child. The caption was "Give this little girl a great big hand...
...Arthur F. Willebrandt was superintendent of a high school in Buckley, Mich. Mabel Elizabeth Walker was a girl of 21, teaching lumberjacks' children in the Buckley primary school. She had gone to Michigan with her parents from Kansas, where she was born in a sod hut on the prairie...
...cannot honorably take his own life, but a distorted sense of honor permits him to meddle in the affairs of a gang-governed district, hoping always that a gangster's bullet will end it all. A second love comes into the meddling clubman's life, but the girl (Martha Sleeper), a luncheon cashier, lists not to the mating song of the clubman when she learns he has been balked by another. Warner Baxter, able actor, is unable to escape the boundaries of a bad script...
...jungle (hobo hangout) her sex is discovered when the Arkansaw Snake (Robert Perry) recognizes the contour of her hips, despite her masculine attire, her cropped hair. But Oklahoma Red (Wallace Beery) is a vagabond whose rules are: when he is with a gang, it is his gang; if a girl is in the gang, she is his girl. Hopping a freight with the gang to elude hawkshaws who were after Murderess Nancy, Oklahoma Red holds informal court, sentences Nancy's young hobo to be thrown off the train. The discovery of the hawkshaws on the train postpones execution...