Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Loves (Moviegraph) is the ac- count of a well-curved siren who made life obnoxious for three men. When an elderly lover had eliminated her husband, she bewitched a youth who was about to depart on his honeymoon. In the midst of New Year's revels he tried to separate her from her consort, who took the occasion to murder her. Directed and acted with Teutonic power, the picture leaves a lingering impression of the heart's treacheries. If it is widely enough shown in the U. S. its heroine (Marlene Dietrich) may imperil the favor...
Sigmund Freud, now 73, suggests how his psychoanalysis is affecting anthropology, study of religion, literary history, education. He also announces: "The belief that in man sexual life begins only at, puberty is incorrect...
...reputation. ... As a rule, they [prize-fighters, managers et al.] were sinister people with few scruples, vulgar and brutal to a marked degree . . . branded as outcasts . . . until the government, in 1917 . . . adopted it [boxing] as an important means for quickly fitting untrained men for rigorous soldier-life. . . . The modern boxer realizes that unless he is mentally equipped his chances for success are very slim...
...former wife is now happily married to another man. I married Miss Austral. "How dare the Church criticize us? Supposing there had been no divorce? Supposing that we had not been brave and moral enough to take the matter to the courts, and lived the kind of life so many others are living today? What is the answer of the Church to that? . . ." Nellie Melba (Mrs. Nellie Porter Armstrong), as everyone knows, invented her professional name, using the first letters of her native Melbourne. Florence Mary Wilson, a compatriot, did the same with "Australia," dubbed herself Austral shortly before...
Supporting Mrs. Burns's complaints was an affidavit given by her to her attorney setting forth a new version of the life of Convict Burns, including the following allegations...