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...First Act. Nina, normal New England girl, loves Gordon, college hero, honest, compelling, gladiatorial. Her father, jealous of her love, persuades her to postpone marriage. Gordon goes to war, dies in a flaming airplane...
...subscriber to TIME. Each member of the family reads it with growing interest. We Texans are jealous that the Democrats of other states who are to gather soon in Houston may know something of our unique history, romantic as a novel...
Forty-seven years ago, in June, Helen Adams Keller was born, at Tuscumbia, Ala. For a year and a half she was a healthy and good natured little absurdity; then, in her second winter, some jealous deity reached out his hand toward Helen Keller. She had an illness, "acute congestion of the stomach and brain"; afterward she was as deaf and as blind as an idol. For five years, "a peevish, unmanageable little animal," she squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon...
...other's prices, markets, territories. Shell is rival of Standard of N. Y. and the powerful Standard of New Jersey (a separate concern whose attitude in the controversy is not yet clear) for oil control of the world. The price war may foreshadow a far reaching, dangerous disagreement with jealous, potent British commercial interests...
Actor Campbell Gullan performs notably as the jealous huband exercising his shoddy, maniacal little power over the frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...