Word: maned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Religion! "In our first or very general circle," began leonine Paul-Boncour, stroking his handsome mane, "it is simply a question-to use almost textually the expressions which on two occasions the American Secretary of State has used-of considering that since by common accord all civilized nations have outlawed war any nation making war now can no longer continue to profit by the legal rights of belligerents. "War being outlawed, it is logical that he who wages war shall be deprived of the economic aid without which adventures of this kind could get nowhere in the modern world...
Four days before election Newton Diehl Baker has his most important date of the campaign, at Montclair, N. J.* Beside the onetime Secretary of War on the platform is to sit a man with a shaggy white mane who is running for Freeholder of Essex County.† After Mr. Baker has warmed himself up on the Roosevelt-Garner ticket, he is to unleash all his eloquence as a partisan advocate in behalf of this local candidate, who happens to be his older brother Frank...
...little room in Queens, New York, 12-year-old Jane Ruby lay ill of pneumonia. Near her bed four newborn spitz puppies squirmed in a box. Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken a distinguished past. In & out of the Ruby abode pranced a black spitz bitch named Fluffy, raising her family, amusing the sick girl, bringing companionship into the life of old Laborer Smith. Then one day last week Covetousness reared its ugly head...
Miss Twelvetrees has been repeatedly miscast since her first and best picture, "Swing High." An ingenue with an appealing trick of making her eyes tragic and a way of laughing and crying by turns, she would have a great deal to give to a fragile re mane like "Sunrise." But instead, the vastly commonplace Miss Gaynor usurps these roles, and Miss Twelvetrees is forced to play gangsters" molls and cast-off courtesans. It is not her fault that she has had to grimace in the grand manner or shrill thinly in melodrama. In "Panama Flo", she deals more skillfully than...
...punctiliously arched, lifts her hoofs in a gait which is higher, slower and shorter in stride than that of a standard bred horse. She has four white stockings, a white star on her forehead and a white snip on her nose. Her black tail is cropped; on her black mane, in the show ring, are knots of red wool to accent the curve of her neck. In her stall she shows traces of the nervousness which is noticeable in all progeny of her mother. She regards all small objects as likely to be edible and wears a wire muzzle...