Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee-deep in blood, dealing ferocious blows right and left upon millions of shrieking animals in order that we may be fed. . . . The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish it we shall rely upon the modern woman...
Stripped is a romance, including an imaginary kingdom and its Prince, stalwartly interpreted by Lionel Atwill. In the search for the stolen crown jewels it seems for a while that a woman suspect may be forcibly denuded, but those who anticipate this violence will be disappointed...
Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
...been taken out just before the fire. About $2,000,000 worth of prints made from the stored negatives were burned up, but that was all. Assured that burning cinema film breeds no such dreadful gases as X-ray negatives did in the Cleveland Clinic last spring (TIME, May 27), searchers opened the hot door, entered the vaults, found the vintages of romance, adventure and claptrap, safe on their racks...
...amazing reaction, gentlemen!" said he. "A few more days like this one and M. Clémenceau may be considered out of immediate danger. Unfortunately the nights are very much harder on him than the days. Perhaps in your stories it would be safer for you to use the word 'Armistice' than 'Victory...