Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bandits "stand and Deliver." This young man is always dashing and adventurous, or is supposed to be. He dashes around quite a bit in this picture with Lupe Velez, whom those who were so unfortunate as to see "The Gaucho" will remember. Together they put romance on the map in the Balkans, and cause Warner Oland, wh plays the renegade, to lead a miserable existence. This photoplay will be forgotten before one is past the portals of the garishly gilded photoplay palace, so no harm is done...
...Eyre reached for his map, missed it; it slipped into a corner of his cockpit. Two thousand feet over Essex, England, he undid his safety straps and reached again. Unintentionally he pressed the control stick forward. The plane stalled with a start and an astonished flier found himself catapulted into midair. With presence of mind he pulled his parachute cord, landed unhurt, lighted a cigaret, and addressed a gaping rustic: "I wonder where my kite's gone...
...this day nine Norwegians out of ten still emotionally prefer Bjornson to Ibsen, while recognizing with gratitude that the fame of Ibsen has "put Norway on the map," for ignorant millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute...
...Countess Maritza" is about as lucid a reason for incessant warfare in the Balkans as has been discovered in many moons. Any 100 percent Balkan state which sees itself portrayed as the anonymous one in this piece does cannot but go home thoroughly determined to rearrange the map...
...these awful statistics carry their own message to everyone of us. The Crimson feels it is going forth like the Crusaders of old to put the United States of America back on the map, and to make Harvard Man and One Hundred Per Cent American Citizen synonymous. Hats off! The Crimson and the American Flag are going...