Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Pollard, of the ninth generation of Virginia Pollards, is a quiet, meditative man of 58. His eyes twinkle, his lips smile with scholastic humor. At Williamsburg he dwells in a middle-class wooden house in the faculty group, tends a flower garden in the rear, forgets to answer the supper bell. He served his State one term as Attorney-General...
...depths of the Everglades last fortnight were secret rejoicings. In many a primitive Indian village, protected from the inquisitive white man by evil-smelling swamps, warriors and squaws grunted their satisfaction at the news that, after a 100 years of botheration, the U. S. was at last to let them alone in their dank solitude...
...Washington, D. C, where he had learned to sing in the synagogue with his father, Cantor Yoelson. He got a job barking for a side-show with a country circus, later went into vaudeville and started blacking his face because he noticed that crowds always laughed at a black man. He worked with Dockstader's minstrels, then for the Shuberts. He was the first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor in the world, he remains capricious, moody, fond...
...Man and the Moment (First National). Billie Dove re-establishes an oldtime tenet of picturemaking, to the effect that if an actress is good-looking enough she does not need to have stories written for her or to know how to act. Elinor Glyn was hired to make up some thing about a bride who gets out of her husband's stateroom on the wedding morning, but the plot is halfhearted, as though its famed authoress were conscious that her fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love...
Round Four. By now, of course, negotiations had reached total deadlock. The Latin delegations?maneuvered by M. Briand who himself spoke seldom?had dodged the Snowden attack by treating it as bluff. Such a wild man, they indicated, could not be speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making...