Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, said Doctor Garabedian, Ras Taffari came to him, said the Empress, only remaining obstacle to the throne, needed medical attention. Doctor Garabedian would not undertake the case. Thereafter, claimed Doctor Garabedian, life was a series of subtle plots against his life, falsified political charges, unjust sentences. Last fortnight, he escaped from Abyssinia and Ras Taffari's evil eye, all the way to Geneva, Switzerland. Immediately he went to the International Labor Bureau, sued for $120,000 for persecution, broken health...
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...
Beggars of Life. This story of Jim Tully's concerns hoboes. It 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...
...published free of charge, if they will but come to the Graphic office. This new lure was established last week. It is all a labor of love: "Drab, colorless lives have been made bright; discouraged souls have been given renewed faith in mankind and have found new interests in life." Specimen Lonely Hearts of the last two weeks...
...having been graduated from the University of Cincinnati and having done some trifling landscapes for the office safes of nature-loving Cincinnati businessmen, young Outcault walked into the office of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. He had some cartoons of life in a place called Hogan's Alley, of which the hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born...