Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wanderer. This American spectacle appeared for its first week in crude contrast to Siegfried. This picture is the one with which Famous Players hoped to repeat the success of The Ten Commandments. It is in the same mood-Bible teaching all tangled up with a modern allegory. But it somehow seems hollow, even beside that garish venture. The story of the Prodigal Son is the specific parable employed. The characters are chiefly impersonated by William Collier Jr. and Greta Nissen. There is plenty of sex and a practically uninterrupted killing of the fatted calf. The Wanderer will probably be popular...
...Berlin the Senator was induced to discuss his peregrinations in Turkey. The irreconcilable, who opposed the Turkish-American Treaty for reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, was in a critical mood. As he saw it, Turkey was coming more and more under the thumb of Bolshevik Russia, which is rapidly extending its influence through commercial penetration. Germany's trade position in regard to Turkey, the Senator was convinced, is also fast reaching its pre-War importance, while the positions of Britain, France and Italy are made stationary through jealousy...
...week by the police. They wish for magic powders potent to bring back an erring wife or husband; for herbs that will "Tie Down Goods" (i.e., keep the object of their affections from departing), for "Boss Fix Powders" (roots and simples that will keep an employer in a halcyon mood), for fusions that will win the heart of the most austere maiden. Throaty voices extol in music the virtues of such medicines...
...evening, the Prince attendee a dance in the Town Hall, which he did not leave until the "wee" hours of the morning. At one period, when he was in "a merry mood," he was asked to cut an enormous birthday cake "Certainly," replied the Prince, "I'll do anything you like." The top two layers of the cake were removed and Prince, seizing a knife, plunged it up to the hilt into the cake. To his horror and to the amusement of the guests he found that he could neither cut the cake nor move the knife. The cake...
...mousetraps of Rochester. Charles is inflexible in body as in brain. When asked to face the camera, he leaves his feet planted in the direction they are taking, rotates his chunky body solemnly from the hips. His brother, who looks like a dashing admiral, strikes any pose his mood commands. It is he who performs the "attractive" operations; to Charles falls the unpretentious work, the routine that has made the Mayo Foundation famed throughout the world. Their hospital, bowered with lawns and orchards, has ten operating rooms. During the last four years, 28,970 abdominal operations have been performed there...