Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his enforced residence abroad he was first and foremost a stalwart American. He was honest, intelligent, fearless. His home life was an example...
...Perfect Crime. "The greatest detective in the world" (Clive Brook) retires because criminals are so stupid. He will show them how; he commits "the perfect crime," a murder without a single clew. But finally, he is forced to confess in order to save the life of an innocent man. It is a thoroughly insipid film. To critical audiences, the crime was by no means perfect. The acting of Clive Brook and Irene Rich was exasperating. The "talkie" parts were atrocious, partly faked...
...middle-aged Pan with monkey glands-such was the hazy impression, if any, of Havelock Ellis, until his Dance of Life expounded to thoughtful English and U. S. youth a philosophy of love and joy founded upon sound medico-psychological principles. The present biography condones the popular success of Dance of Life since that work displays neither the gamut of Ellis' scientific knowledge nor the depth of his philosophy of beauty as reflected in his Affirmations, Sex in Relation to Society, Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Impressions and Comments. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, distressed by his own patchy...
Enthusiastic, Biographer Peterson is nevertheless restrained and scholarly in his valuable analysis of Ellis' life and writings...
...Straton started a crusade against Manhattan "night-life." He spoke from his pulpit of painted women who "plied their trade"; he described with astonishing intimacy the nudity on view in Aphrodite, a current revue. So detailed were his accounts that many members of his congregation deserted it and some of the trustees took exception to his eloquence...