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Word: namee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does his wife but can forgive neither of them for their sin. Mary Philbin, garbed in tight and tenuous garments, is almost equally competent to express her perplexity in the choice between loyalty and passion. The younger brother to the hunchback is a handsome cinemactor of Valentinoesque appearance; his name is Don Alvarado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...Director David Lew-elyn Wark Griffith to sentimentalize his sound themes, to intensify the subtlety of a straightforward situation by allowing the lens of his camera to point for long and frequent intervals at the almost im mobile face of one of his characters. This he does under the name of art; its effect upon the cinema is most unhealthy, be cause it prevents the plot from achieving a proper momentum. Aside from this foible, Director Griffith is consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith was accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...impersonating, with much undue undulation, a French girl who dances in a Moroccan port-town public house. Behind her, one catches a glimpse of the entire U. S. Navy, but especially of one roustabout bluejacket to whom Actor George O'Brien has given his first name and a good characterization. A mere word, spoken in jest by this gay and murderous tar, persuades the dancing girl to visit Manhattan, where she is last seen, in the midst of her loose and double jointed motions. She has already performed matrimony on the sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Every day for 30 years she drank a pint and a half. Last week she died. Dr. D. A. Urquhart pronounced her "virtually pickled alive." Her drink was commercial vinegar; her name was Miss May Robsley of Shrewsbury, England; her weight was 38 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Snicker | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...Henry Ameroy Hotvedt (pronounced Hotwet) of Weehawken, N. J., said, "People snicker at the mention of my name," when he last week petitioned a law court to change his name to Hartwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Snicker | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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