Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title of "The American Mistinguett;" Buster West, cute and toothy juvenile dancer; Luella Gear, William Kent, Nell Kelly. And yet it is dismal, for the lines are feeble, the tunes ordinary. The story deals with a husband who plagiarizes a book on mountain-climbing so his wife will not know he has spent all his time in Paris, none in the Alps...
Packard v. Ford. If you possess or know any one who possesses a Dos-A-Dos (an electric automobile seating four per- sons, back to back, manufactured by the Pope Mfg. Co. in 1898), communicate with Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., and he will no doubt smile with pleasure. Mr. Ford wants a Dos-A-Dos because his engineers believe that it was equipped with 'demountable & interchangeable wheels. The Packard Motor Car Co. has brought a patent infringement suit against the Ford Motor Co. because of the demountable & interchangeable wheels on the new Fords. Thus, a Dos-A-Dos might...
...Story. To race on the tide of five centuries, to be a man for a while and know the thrill of mastery, to be a woman for a spell and know the subtler ecstasy of submission, to grow older in understanding without losing bodily vigor or mental finesse?this is the enviable life, and this is the life of Orlando...
...jezebelling so he goes to Ellis Island and makes a deal with an immigrant girl, Renee Adoree. A subplot (Roscoe has a mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis but effective melodrama on the screen. James Cruze directed and Rex Beach, who taught many studio writers all they know about making a thriller, wrote the story. Best shot: Renee Adoree in swimming at night in a coal black river. Good entertainment...
...course, I got back from Europe only two days ago, so that I don't know a lot about them, but they do not seem to me to be on the job. They should have canvassed every professor in the University, and got him to say for whom he was voting, and what his reasons were for supporting that candidate. Then the Republican Club, for instance, would have done something worth while both towards promoting Hoover, and towards strengthening the prestige of the club...