Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keen sense of pleasure. Not only in the special fields of history and of government, in which he is a most accomplished scholar, but also in the whole range of education, his influence has been profoundly felt. With many students at Harvard, who have read his numerous books, his name has become a familiar byword...
...treaty between France and Spain is seen to depend on the success Gaston, the French military attache has in his attentions to Manuela, the wife of the Spanish war minister, who is its chief opponent. The first act sees him committed to this amourous campaign in the name of patriotism; the second carries it on hilariously to the verge of a successful conclusion, and needless to say by the final curtain victory has come to the banners of love and France...
During the brief lapse of five years since his death, a man who spent the greater part of his life as a mere exile, a prisoner, and rebel chief, has had his name immortalized in the minds of his countrymen. Throughout Russia, especially in the rural districts where peasants view with alarm any change in the seasoned order of crops, his image is often to be seen enshrined on a stone pedestal, illuminated with lighted candles. Out of a patriotic hero has sprung a veritable demi...
...publisher's clerk, worked ten hours a day. Nauseated with romanticism, he wrote a thousand words daily, part of a projected scheme of novels which would neither gild lilies nor avoid dung. Naturalism was being born. Literature should be scientifically aware of inheritance & environment. He would make his mellifluous name resound on the boulevards, the back alleys...
Vilma Banky's real name is Banky Vilma. She was born in Nagydorog, Hungary, and has a sister named Gizi. She had been making pictures for European companies when Samuel Goldwyn saw her picture in a photographer's showcase in Budapest. The people she worked for didn't want her to meet Goldwyn and kept her out of his way. He was about to get on a train when her manager ran up, seized the magnate's arm, urged him back to where the actress, her beautiful face expressing suspense, was standing in the drafty waiting...