Word: mountebanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Heflin's threat of deserting the Democratic party with a million of his stout henchmen, still hangs in abeyance. But if such a multitude are not ready to name that mountebank for their leader, there are enough whose sentiments concur with his, to form a very considerable block against the election of Governor Smith. The women's branch of the Democratic party has stated an equally strong determination against the nomination of an avowed wet. And it was for this wetness that Mr. McAdoo assailed the New York governor in an important address in Virginia that belied the harmony...
...Helfin of Alabama has recanted and admitted that he delivered his oratorical acid of a day or so ago in "fun", it appears that the laughter which swept the chamber and galleries when he sounded a conciliatory note is the just reward of one who not only played the mountebank but chose dangerous toys at the same time...
...swear that if that man is not a mountebank, as Mencken contends (and I am afraid Mencken is wrong) he, at least, most assuredly, is an unpardonable crank, a sort of belated Don Quixote of new puritanism, who ultimately will discredit the highly responsible office he holds, in a highly modernized society...
...tears that torment him. In the waiting room he meets Luigi Ravelli, the roisterer and squire of dames, who has come to be treated, not for tears, but uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta, the orphan waif brought up by Flik, enters the office. A vacation, strolling through the nearby countryside, is decided upon then and there...
...Sideshow of Life. If cinema-wrights had not so low an opinion of the vocabularies of moviegoers, they might have called this picture The Mountebank after W. J. Locke's story which it dramatized. Ernest Torrence, as the Mountebank, plays all the chords of Locke's sentimentalism as clown and brigadier general in worthy re-creation of the intinerant romance...