Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jealous. One night he finds a masculine slipper, not his own, in her room. Othello-like, he rashly accuses her of infidelity. To give adequate evidence of her honor, she throws herself into the river, but is fished out and hauled aboard a passing barge. It belongs to none other than the Emperor himself, on a joy ride with the Empress. The heroine tells her tale; the Emperor persuades her husband to believe in her honesty; all ends happily...
Little Robinson Crusoe. It must be a discouraging task searching for vehicles in which Jacky Coogan can travel new stages on the road that he has paved for himself thus far with great prosperity. None of his later films seem much more than thinly gilded frames in which to set his brilliantly expressive countenance. In the current picture he is wrecked on a cannibal island, and disports himself amidst the cannibal cancan...
...velocity and where the sixth longest bridge in the world supplies "see-ers" with a "sight." Britain's battle fleet uses it as a base. Scotsmen, particularly Edinburghers who dwell near its troubled expanse, boast of its majesty and dangers. But few think of swimming across it; and none of those who have tried have ever succeeded-until last week. Then W. E. Barnie, an Edinburgh science teacher, girded up his loins, plunged in at Burntisland, on the North side, struggled for 4 hours and 10 minutes with swirling tide rips and deadly cold patches, stumbled ashore at Granton...
...virtue than which there is none more universal...
...None the less, Reporter Sanford Jarrell of the Herald-Tribune, who had brought in the "beat," complete with nautical bearings, itinerary, wine list and anecdotes, had gained his superiors' , attention, for better or for worse. They questioned him, congratulated him, sent him off for further copy about his alcoholic argosy...