Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Notorious Lady (Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford). Her ill fame was gained in court, where she painted herself a scarlet woman in order to save her husband arraigned on a murder charge. As usual, the husband fails to understand such exquisite betrayal. He dons a romantic white helmet, sets out for South Africa, becomes involved with diamonds, Negroes, wild beasts. Believing him dead, his wife also visits South Africa. When such melodramas are presented in college towns, the boys throw peanuts at the screen...
...Carmi A. Thompson (member of the onetime "Ohio gang"), held in awe by many a Filipino as the Personal Representative of Big White President Coolidge, has come home. He landed at Seattle, Wash., last week after some five months of poking through tropic seas, doffing his white helmet to Sulu chieftains, smiling blandly at high-strung Filipino politicos. Much more than all that is recorded judiciously in his comprehensive report to the President on the economic and governmental condition of the Philippines...
...tall figure, one a short. They faced each other, the small one standing with his knees slightly bent, his shoulders hunched, his left thumb insultingly applied to his buttonish nose. In his right hand was a little wooden sword. On his head appeared a crested toy helmet, bravely capped by a toy British flag. Behind his twiddling fingers, the small creature's mouth was opened in scolding anger; his scrubby mustache and beetling eyebrows bristled. His spectacles added to the effect of impotent, scrawny anger, which the tall figure, in familiar top hat and long coattails, surveyed with quizzical...
Married. General Erich von Ludendorff, 61; to Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz, at Tutzing, Bavaria. He wore his general's uniform, all his medals, his spiked helmet; so did his best man, Major Siry, ex-adjutant. Also, he gave motorcycles to the two schoolboy sons of his new wife...
...heavens-on, on to Cuyo Island, veritable Eden in the Sulu Sea. Col. Thompson, pleased, ambled beneath outlandish cocoanut palms, low luscious mangoes. No phones, newspapers, railroads, trolleys or automobiles marred this hot perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white helmet to the glistening coral beach, proceeded to the Island of Palawan where a launch took him up the Iwahig River to the Iwahig Penal Colony. Here he saw crocodiles, alligators, exuberant tropic vegetation. He saw, also, 1,700 convicts living happily with their wives and children, cultivating their own crops...