Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voice of the City (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Irish love in a garret pads the complicated and somewhat disconnected framework of this story of a prisoner's escape and revenge. The old-line stage detective who is disagreeable until the last minute is played with remarkable gusto by Willard Mack, who also directed and wrote the picture. After the first performance in Manhattan, the following tribute appeared in an advertisement in the N. Y. World: "The Voice of the City . . . would fit any medium but is best as a talkie. . . . (signed) Willard Mack." Best shot: a living corpse dangling from...
Eight days in advance, said M. Judet, the French army was warned by a German deserter who described the gas cylinders already in place in the German lines, and even produced one of the rudimentary gas masks which had been issued to the German troops. This information was brought to General Ferry of the French army, whose division was just about to move out of the line...
When the low yellow clouds of chlorine actually appeared the irate French General Staff pounced upon General Ferry, then in another part of the line, and removed him from his command...
...Then they were forced back into their base of operations, the State of Sonora (TIME,, April 22), where U. S. citizens go to get hard drinks and easy divorces. Weeping bitterly last week Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora ordered the insurrecto flag hauled down, then fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains along the U. S. border. Without the need of striking...
...Aviv, last week, celebrated not only the Passover but also its own 20th birthday. First city of the Zionists, founded on the sand dunes outside of Jaffa, Tel Aviv now resembles a small California town. Two-storied stucco houses line its shrubbed avenues. It has its own theatre, its opera house, about 50 schools. Its population verges on 50,000. Nothing but Hebrew is spoken in Tel Aviv...