Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Introduce Me. Douglas MacLean takes his smile for an airing on the Alps. As in his earlier picture, The Hottentot, Mr. MacLean is again a timid young man harried into rash deeds for the sake of a maiden fair. Constructed along formulistic lines, his gallivanting around the dizzy cliffs yet has its comic urge...
...important subject?" and proceeded: "We make a great mistake when we assume that a happy marriage is one without a hitch or minor squabble from year to year. A marriage without a hitch or two is a dull affair enjoyed only by dull people. The young man and maiden who look forward to a calm sea voyage for life are, if their expectations be fulfilled, to be of little use to each other. Let us face all the facts and not dream of a drawing-room geniality which is responsible for more disappointments in marriage than anything else. Have...
...Professor", writing in the current Atlantic Monthly, has arisen to justify the younger generation. He admits that he is sufficiently decrepit to be classed with maiden aunts, dry league reformers, and the bald-headed club, and yet he does not think his generation was infinitely superior in its youth to the present crop of earth-encumberers. It is, indeed, fortunate that he did not reveal his name, for if he had, a delegation of the middle aged would have tried and executed him of heresy long before...
...best it can be, it is this: A miner in a West Virginia coal town breaks jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother, in a jazz wedding ceremony...
Antimacassars that were disarranged in Maiden...