Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine weeks of his vacation, President Coolidge has not made a single public utterance. It was once thought that to carry on a successful "front porch" campaign, it was necessary to have Rotary Clubs, Elks, Boy Scouts, Better Voters' Leagues, come and sit on the lawn. Then the officeholder or office-seeker would make a speech to them which would be broadcast through the land. But this summer, Mr. Coolidge has hit upon a new method of influencing the public-and a clever one too. His scheme has two essentials...
...only occasion upon which Mr. Hays' "heart touch" seemed forced is when photographed with filmdom's buffoons-Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton. The dictator of the fourth largest industry possibly meditates upon a smug lawn and a White House in Washington-then sighs, returns to work. After all, he is a president. And, withdrawn from politics, he has become an unselfish deus ex machina to the movies, a veritable polychromatic Pollyanna...
Meanwhile, as is his custom, Wilfred hopped about on the local rector's lawn, nibbled many a grassblade. One-half of Wilfred belonged to Robert Timlinson, the rector's son, one-half to his daughter Kathleen, aged 6. His Majesty, riding out to hunt, passed the window where Kathleen lay recovering from a long illness. Kindly...
...calling him, and for a while Marcus Loew responded by dashing perpetually from one to another. Then, tired of Pullman cars, he bought, for a million dol lars, the Long Island palace of the late and notorious Captain De La Mar, mineral millionaire. There, with miles of lawn, a garage as big as a depot, a private golf course, a swimming pool, he enjoys thg amenities that life offers to the successful-among them, now, a bit of ribbon...
...good-looking." Padlocked (Lois Moran and Noah Beery). Here is a typical concession to the popular flair for denouncing everything puritanical. A reformer is represented as the fanatical persecutor of his lovely wife and daughter, both 100% virtuous by nature. The reformer, nasty-minded, looks upon lawn tennis as vice. Eventually he is made to see that the source of all evil is restraint and the source of all sweetness and light is in the freedom denied by reformers. Out of such unwholesome moralizing by Rex Beach, Director Dwan, with an excellent cast, makes as good a picture as could...