Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more imaginative man might have killed himself. A more unscrupulous man might have sailed for South America or Africa. A more logical man might have surrendered to the nearest representative of the law. But Charles Delos Waggoner, quixotic President of the Bank of Telluride, Col. adopted none of these courses. Having fraudulently obtained some $500,000 from six Manhattan banks to save his Telluride bank (TIME, Sept. 16), Mr. Waggoner was last week apprehended in a Wyoming tourist camp. He was traveling in his own car and under his own name, although he had adopted the subterfuge of shaving...
...Wells used a phrase like this: 'Life will use me for its purpose.' That appears to me exactly like a man jumping from the top of Westminster Cathedral and saying, The force of gravity will...
...Author Roy Hargrave, who plays the unfortunate hero, is a sometime Williams man (1926), an adept at neurotic portraiture. He makes a terrifying thing of the sophomore's plight. Otherwise the play is often ill-designed; its dialog smacks of college magazines rather than colleges. The other coauthor, a Williams alumnus (1923), is Kenneth P. Britton...
...throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly and gloomily, making you feel the knot in the head of the man who could talk in any voice except his own. Director James Cruze, however, seemed convinced that he was directing a story about show business. Before long he neglected the ventriloquist to supply atmosphere in the form of chorus girls dancing, getting dressed, chattering, rehearsing. Best shot: the Great Gabbo going crazy because he cannot...
...been to a cadet school in Austria, had served in a crack imperial regiment. After advising directors on the proper management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became a director for Universal. He made some good pictures, but took long to make them, spent huge sums, worked his casts to exhaustion. Last year, after finishing The Wedding March, a dull picture in spite of a budget so huge that...