Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 4, 1912 the S. S. Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden trip and sunk with the loss of 1500 lives. The British Government invited the nations of the world to a conference held at London where an agreement was drafted and later signed by which all the powers agreed to help defray the expenses of an International Ice Patrol in proportion to their respective shipping...
...these things dipped in good jokes and not very good music make up a musical comedy called The Merry Malones. Mr. Cohan syrups the situation with a romance of the son of a billionaire who becomes temporarily a soda fountain clerk in order to woo a poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly with sentimental love ballads for the masses in the gallery. All this is done with ineffable geniality and unceasing speed. Folksy customers will love it; firm-minded moderns will squirm. Mr. Cohan himself...
Such Is Life. The iron, generally, has been driven into the soul of young playwrights who label their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness...
...exponent. He rose from it to such might that he earned the curse of the entire Bhingi race in Australia and became the object, in his electrically guarded mansion, of their attacks by totem pole, octopus and many another insidious device. His tragedy was that Safra Ferguson, the Bhingi maiden cultivated to perfection by an eccentric U. S. dowager, could not love him, though she frequently saved his life. From the bold wind that he sowed against the Bhingis and their Catholic teachers, Barboas reaped a whirlwind of remorse. Safra, returning to her people, was slain by them...
...honest and noble. They have long gone to their Happy Hunting Ground, and we call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak."- To cap the ceremony, Rosebud Robe (soon to appear in vaudeville as "the most beautiful Indian maiden in the world") placed upon White Chief & Protector Coolidge's brow a war bonnet of 200 feathers. Nineteen of the warriors who had helped kill General Custer's men on June 25, 1876, cheered vigorously...