Word: namelessness
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...title piece is less a story than an impressionistic anecdote. It ironically details the slender history of a nameless Negro in an overseas battalion who was caught filching food from another outfit's mess. He finds that the hardboiled lieutenant to whom he is brought for discipline hails from Galveston, Tex. So does the Negro. They chat together for a few minutes. Months later the officer learns that the black regiment has been destroyed...
...picture of Mrs. Coolidge hangs in the White House. Recently Mrs. Leonebel Jacobs went to China; last week in Manhattan she exhibited the faces of certain ladies and gentlemen few westerners have looked upon. The deposed Empress of the Manchus looks out under a headdress of cultured, decadent and nameless flowers. Prince Pu, with European hair, has the clear intelligent gaze of a Pekinese. There is Hsuan Tung, a petal-faced youth, the deposed Emperor; others, in stiff silk, noblemen, princes, knights. Mrs. Jacobs, a clever and sophisticated painter, does her work well, suggesting an exotic atmosphere with diminishing ovals...
...young man, irresponsible, selfish, becomes entangled with two women. One he marries; the other he leaves to bear a nameless child. Instead of allowing the play to rush to its inevitable catastrophe from this point, Miss Vernon, under the guidance of George M. Cohan, makes it diddle with detectives, telephone calls, attempted murder, cross-examinations, till finally she puts an end to it all with a last tragic scene that recalls the promise of the first two. Shirley Warde carries off highest honors in the cast, though Chester Morris makes a sufficiently convincing cause of all the trouble. The lighting...
...most venerated axiom of criticism is the theory that the pass of time invariably sifts good pictures from bad, destroys the latter, and holds up the former to the admiration of succeeding generations. It is a comforting theory. It convinces the connoisseur of his good taste, and solaces the nameless artist for years of neglect. Just why it should be believed remains a mystery, for all too often the evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room. The scene...
Only that morning Pilsudski had flayed the Witos Government in an interview printed by the Warsaw press. Grimly he reflected that he was still the idol of the Polish army, that most Polish soldiers subscribe to the famed remark of a nameless private: "Our Pilsudski has only to wink his eye and we will all commit anything from treason to suicide, according to his orders...