Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quickly followed the identification of Cassidy as the "Man in the Green Hat"? 'legger who long has specialized in trade around the Capitol. Three years ago he was going his rounds in the House Office Building when his liquor-laden brief case fell to the stone floor. Amid fumes of alcohol, he fled to the street. His only identification then was his bright green hat. When arrested last week he wore a hat of sober grey...
...been told that no man should become a professor unless he has prospects of being selfsupporting, either through marriage or otherwise, until he is 45 years old. I can hardly regard with respect or approval professors who marry for money and teach for love...
...brilliant acting makes credible the overexcited story of a woman whose principles and weak husband spoil life for her. She is a stenographer. Her husband is the son of a millionaire. When her father-in-law has broken up her marriage she is kept by another man. Later she engages in a contest of self-sacrifice with her former husband's new wife. The plot is full of "audience value," i. e., emotional sequences rising out of each other so rapidly as to eliminate the narration necessary in ordinary stories. Through its unrealities, Gloria Swanson is handsome, restrained, adroit...
...Isle of Lost Ships (First National). This is the dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body...
...Vitamin A prevents the eye disease xerophthalmania; Vitamin B3 prevents beriberi in man and polyneuritis in fowl; Vitamin B2 prevents pellagra; Vitamin C prevents scurvy; Vitamin D prevents rickets; Vitamin E prevents sterility...