Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those of your fellow-countrymen who believe that France dreams, or has dreamed, of political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken. As the creditor of Germany. France is not so mad as to wish to reduce her debtor to poverty. It is in the interests of France that Germany should work, produce and recuperate...
...film should make his fame, as "The Four Horsemen" made that of Rudolph Valentino. Then, besides the leading couple, Lionel Barrymore is effective as the cruel Captain Butler, who directs the Iroquois raids, and ravages the American outposts. About these three a rapidly shifting melodrama of death, pasion, and mad action revolves with bewildering intensity. Indian raids, banquets, panoramic rides of rescue, fort-storming, and cavalry charges of fighting patriots succeed each other. Deep touches of pathos, and fleeting moments of humor--some ridiculous, some gruesome--are mixed through. The scenes are all emotional to the extreme. When the play...
This Elizabethan miscellany, familiar to Shakespeare and containing a ballad which may have provided Ophelia with snatches of her mad scene, is now reprinted for modern readers and students, in a pleasing edition which follows the original pagination, punctuation, and division of lines. "The Handful of Pleasant Delights", says the editor, "contains nothing but ballads, all of which and, before their collection in miscellany, been printed on breadsides, so that it is a bit surprising to see how unanimous is the price given to it." Whether the present reprint should prove more tempting to student of special topics...
...money available, he uses his own. He has rented a whole floor for himself, and when his secretary reported difficulty about getting more rooms, he said: "Buy the building!" He is successful at getting things done, and with all his assumption of authority, no one gets mad at him. A nice fellow? a little naive, a little over-eager?but not at all offending?indeed likeable...
...Pleasure Mad. When the producers forget that their films are manufactured for the projection room oi a theatre and not for a pulpit there is apt to be dullness. The lesson for this particular evening is the parable of the poor family who suddenly found themselves wealthy. Scrutinizing of the title enables one to guess the outcome...