Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dust Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...
There is also an upheaval of lurid language which tends to confirm the belief that men are men in the Northwest and do not mince words even in talking about...
...long been held with fair unanimity among scientists, that the birthplace of genuine man was probably in southeastern Asia, or somewhere on a belt stretching northwest to England. No traces of really ancient humans had been found in America, and the Western Hemisphere was believed to have been uninhabited by men until people from Asia, over the Bering Strait, by Mongoloid stock, ancestors of the Eskimo and Indians. Many supposedly ice-age human remains in the U. S., when closely investigated, have turned out to be comparatively recent Indians. This is true of the skeletons discovered last year...
...Standard Oil Co. of New York has begun its campaign for the removal of offensive billboards (TiME, March 24). In the Northwest wrecking crews have been set to work burning 1,600 obnoxious signs that have hitherto spoiled the pleasure of nature-praising automobilists...
...Northwest was hatched out in the very beginning by the warmth of an artificial incubator...