Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capitol to see it. The two pictures merited just the opposite treatment. Street Girl was splendid entertainment, the acting capable and mature. The other could fix the attention only of one who had never been places, who was attracted by the liquefaction of Garbo's garments. I felt like a chump for standing as aforesaid. ROBERT EMMET CONNOLLEY New York City Do other readers agree? Disagree...
...divorce, across the grass of a Cincinnati park. He caught her, shot her dead. Tried for murder, he claimed she had plotted his death. He pleaded insanity, was acquitted. A writ of habeas corpus soon freed him from Ohio's State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. "Ohio justice," like "Indiana politics," became a national byword...
Lady Drummond Hay, in knickers and leather flying coat, "clambered squirrel-like" (Von Wiegand description) along the girders of the ship's hull. She carried a Boston Bull pup, who was cold and, she decided, lonesome. Sir Hubert Wilkins clambered with her. Her cloth cat mascot remained in her cabin...
...Like a blue cockchafer crawling onto a floating chip of wood, Naval Lieutenant Alfred J. William's Schneider Cup mono-seaplane Mercury floated on the Severn River off Annapolis last week, her nose in a barge. Lieutenant Williams, swiftest U. S. straightaway flyer since he won the 1923 Pulitzer speed trophy at St. Louis by flying 266.6 m. p. h., built the Mercury from his own specifications. The Navy could not afford the building costs. So friends supplied him the needed $175,000. The navy gave him factory facilities...
...Authors. Theodore F. MacManus is the head of MacManus, Inc., an advertising agency which has handled the accounts of Cadillac, Chrysler, Dodge Brothers, Hupmobile, and has made the phrase "Body by Fisher" known by all those who like beautiful girls. He has known the great and the near-great of the industry almost from the start. He looks at and writes of them as impeccable titans...