Word: harum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is many a story which people like to tell to show that I am a harum-scarum princess. Here are some of them. Long before such things were socially approved, I stepped out into the middle of a ballroom, danced a solo turkey trot, smoked a cigaret. Ladies gasped; I had fun. One afternoon a woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between...
...interesting turn to a hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance to be a melting ingenue and Adolphe Menjou with an opportunity to be a hero for once-while remaining a man-about-town. The Goldfish. Constance Talmadge scampers through the picture in her best harum-scarum vein. She traces with not a little sly subtlety the development of the Coney Island piano-pounder who uses one husband after another to advance her social and financial status, till she finally returns to her initial song-plugging spouse, still the same devoted little heart, but this time...