Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never mind; lucky for all lovers of justice and entertainment, the trial will be held again tonight and probably for a good many nights to come at the Wilbur Theatre. Go and serve on the jury, sit in judgement upon this woman and find out that jury duty is the pleasantest task imaginable...
...detention and get their dope in full freedom. But by prying, during the past few months, into their skulking solitudes, his committeemen found the narcosan-injected, drug-deprived addicts secretly twitching, gritting teeth, rolling eyes, gripping griped abdomens- all in the usual torments of deprivation. Narcosan did them no good. It was too bad, for curing a dope fiend by standard methods is hell for him. He is given nourishing food while his supply of drug is gradually tapered off. Many a fiend, however, goes through the ordeal. He knows, until he is too poisoned, too besotted, that treatment...
...look at Zelma O'Neal to know that everything would be all right. Both pretty and without inhibitions, she tunefully remarked: "I Want to be Bad," illustrating her desire with stamps, wind-ups, moues, and fetching wriggles. When she fell in love, she urged her inamorato to "Take good care of yourself, you belong to me," beating him gently on the chest. So did the audience belong to her, though she abused her property by making such cynical comments as this, to a recalcitrant lover: "You can't have children by telephone...
...estimate the elements of litterateur, bibliophile and businessman in each buyer or seller. Certain it is that shrewd business instinct prevails to a large degree. People were aghast at the prices, at the possibilities of further increase. They pondered investment in books as against investment in stocks. They had good reason...
...Awakening. Vilma Banky, without Ronald Colman, but helped by good photography and Louis Wolheim's battered face, makes fairly acceptable a story based on suspected, but not real unchastity, with a happy ending made possible by the self-sacrifice of a villain...