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Tillie the Toiler (Marion Davies, Matt Moore). According to Subtitle-Writer Ralph H. Spence, Tillie is the sort who wears two pairs of garters, "one to hold up her stockings and one to hold up traffic." The minx sets her cap for her wealthy employer, Pennington Fish. To land him she toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober...
Jack, having butchered seven Spaniards not possessed of gold earrings, splits the eighth with an ax and wrests from his ears the trophy demanded by a pert minx-in-waiting to the Queen, Kate More, "granddaughter of Sir Thomas More...
...Minx and Jack...
...racquet, and her shots came as fast as bullets from a machine-gun. They fell all around me with monotonous little explosions, tum-tat-tat-tum. ... It was rain on the roof. . . . No tennis today, I thought, and went to sleep again till 11 o'clock. . . . Some minx started the rumor that Patou had given me $1,000 worth of clothes. When reporters asked him about it he said: "You know I never gave anything away in my life." A good friend of mine, that little...
...whom the Minx has turned her shoulder cold...