Word: minx
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...anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding...
...bathing at dawn in a mountain pool. Blond Una Merkel takes the part of this young girl. That her good looks and slow, intense voice will make her important before long is the only interesting suggestion conveyed by the whole silly business. Typical Wright phraseology: "vipers" (for villains), "little minx" (for heroine), "ablution" (for bath...
...lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated the queen in the scandal, but herself rode screaming and scratching to the Bastille...
...Princess Emma, and gave out that the "surprised" Princess cast down her eyes, exclaiming, "Oh Mother! Do you want me to accept him? Do you order me to do so?" "No, no, dear child. Make your own choice. Only the King is lonely and unhappy." "Unhappy," cried Little Minx Emma, according to her mother, "Then I will go to him and to them-my future subjects! I will do my duty, with God's help." Queen Emma. When Old King Willem proceeded to beget the present Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her mother, Queen Emma, had much...
There are, as he thinks, three of these. One, a girl, is a shy little songbird from Italy, whose mother was a reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English...