Word: inamorata
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost entirely upon the theme of her celebrated sex-appeal. In this one she meets a standardized, youthful, French aristocrat on the point of marrying a girl he does not love because he has been engaged to her practically since birth. Clara Bow, in the part of his true inamorata, finds ingenious and not unentertaining devices which permit this tragic possibility to be avoided. Through these devices the "It" motif, which sounded loudly through It and Hula, runs like the sound of ten trombones and a fiddle...
...shrine, and of course the Virgin. A triple play, in which a herd of cattle deserves credit for assisting the denouement, gets the Gaucho out of jail, rescues the city once more from the army of Ruiz the usurper and restores the mountain girl to the arms of her inamorata. Immediate marriage is in prospect as the projection machine stops buzzing. As a rule, the important thing in a Fairbanks picture is not the story or the settings which are, in this one, fairly weak and excellent respectively. The important thing is the stocky mercurial fellow who rides and jumps...
...Mont-gomery), who has groped to young manhood in blindness, the spinster is kind, therefore beautiful. He venerates her as he does his own frowsy mother, who, when he was seven and still had his sight, must have been a golden beauty. His illusion of a pretty, black-eyed inamorata brings his first sex consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed by fancy to a heavenly harmony, intrude the raucous gratings of the boarding house. He hears...
...fell in love with 15-year-old Sophy Hopkey, made the saving of her soul his excuse for a prolonged and unculminated courtship. When she, tired of his reluctance to propose, married William Williamson, John Wesley flew into a silly and destructive rage. Not content to relinquish his inamorata, he pursued her with persecutions, driving her away from Holy Communion, questioning the legality of her marriage. At last, after she miscarried a child, her husband sued the man of God. Before the case was tried he left the colonies, returned to England with the Word of God, to found Methodism...
Captain Anthony Jones, having lived long in Arabia with an extensive harem, is as innocent of Western scruples as he is full of fiery fascination. His is the poetic aplomb that can borrow from another inamorata's father the jet trotters necessary and fitting for his sleigh ride to seduce Lanice at a snug suburban...