Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Attorney Monaghan was describing "Boo Boo" Hoff without naming him-and he was-his "giant spider" simile was harsh but not inept. "Boo Boo" is a comfortably built gentleman with charming manners. He has a generous, thoughtful disposition. His taste in dressing gowns and girl friends is catholic. He is a born promoter, especially of versatile night clubs and small-time prize fights. He has at least $1,000,000 and likes to surround himself with strong-armed young men. The young men are pugilists professionally and "Boo Boo's" boxing stable has often contained upwards...
...named after the Most Blessed Conception of the Virgin Mary continued the focus of Mexican news last week. She had been besmirched (TIME, Sept. 3). A youth and a girl had confessed that she was the "master mind" of a group of Roman Catholics who finally persuaded a fanatic to assassinate President-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). In the face of such testimony Mother Superior Concepcion remained calm and demanded to be faced by her accusers last week...
...girl was next brought in. She, pretty Maria Elena Manzano, 21, had previously confessed that Mother Concepcion told her to dance with General Obregon and prick him with a poisoned lancet. Further she stated that she had been upbraided by Mother Concepcion for losing her nerve and failing to prick...
This commonplace story of a girl who is lonely in the world and frightened by its machinery is related on the stage by means of episodic scenes. The girl is beautifully played by an actress new to the Manhattan stage, Zita Johann, whom the expert Arthur Hopkins has discovered among the ranks of road players and raised, as he raised Barbara Stanwyck and Pauline Lord, to stardom. George Stillwell plays the woman's husband with a touch of burlesque that throws the role out of drawing with the true characters opposed to it. The sets, designed by Robert Edmond...
...show whence this cinema derived its name, part of its plot. Those reasons-Gershwin music. Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw-are missing in the movie. Instead there is Colleen Moore, never a great inducement for movie going, hardly more than usual in this offering, which tells of a noble English girl who, besieged by ennui and an unwanted suitor, goes down to the sea in a small ship, drifts into a storm, is rescued by rum-runners...