Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Danger Street. The jilted "clubman" 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...
...opens with a murder. A lecherous farmer took Nancy (Louise Brooks) out of an orphanage. For two years he had "pawed over her with his hands." Finally at breakfast one day he attempted to rape her, but she pulled a shotgun from the wall, slew the farmer, protected her honor. She is assisted in her getaway by a casual young hobo (Richard Arlen) who, cinemaddicts are to believe, persevered in a platonic companionship. At a 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...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Theodore Borutski, onetime German soldier, owner of an iron cross, stated that he wished to change his last name to Roosevelt. Not in honor of famed Theodore Roosevelt: Theodore Borutski wished his name to be Quentin Roosevelt in honor of the son of famed Theodore Roosevelt, aviator who was killed by Germans in France. To France, Theodore Borutski wished to send his iron cross that it might be laid together with a wreath upon the grave of Quentin Roosevelt...
...that the accounts were a million, perhaps more, dollars short. The Atlanta Constitution printed on its front page a facsimile of a postal department dossier which showed that Carnes twice had been indicted for using the mails to defraud. Shocked though they were, Atlanta Baptists early thought of the honor and credit of the Home Mission Board, immediately established a restitution fund to make up Carnes's alleged defalcations...
...people"); the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (newspaper people must be decent to it); Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman (a newspaper columnist himself); Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise (not averse to newspaper publicity), and many a Catholic, Jewish, Protestant layman whose name was not announced. For the greater honor & glory of God, these various factors would work in non-sectarian unison. The Federal Council announced that Dr. Cadman's sermons would be made audible over a hebdomadal hookup of 40 radio stations...