Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parisian Nights. If these words penetrate to Buffalo Bend and Lockjaw Junction, the inhabitants are hereby warned that the title of this conception might better be: "So This Isn't Paris." It is full of Apaches and helpless American girls wandering the streets; it is full of stealthy smiles and lizard looks; it is full of just what a cinema of Parisian low life would be full of. Of course, the head Apache (Lou Tellegen) has a noble soul and rescues the American millionaires who wanted to sculp and got lost one night...
Consider the cod. Although his family is only second on the platter, he is perhaps the most valuable. Even his liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is distinguished by a subtle beard at the tip of the lower jaw. The cod catch on the Newfoundland coast has not been seriously diminished...
...Montmartre such a fertile hill of pleasure. His father, far off in Wall Street, is warned and appears to rob him of the French cocotte who might have married him. Buster Collier plays this young man congenially. Rather less effective was Jacqueline Logan as the French girl surrounded by Parisian night life that obviously existed only in the excited brain of some Hollywood director...
...things it leaves unsaid as well as for those it has committed to print. All the familiar procession of "The Dial's" characteristics has been passed in review in the preparation of this frolic. Particularly its solemn and desperate determination to be ultra about everything--poetry, essays, short stories, Parisian correspondence, and contemporary art and letters...
...Carbunkle is heralded as the new basketball captain of Siwash, having served faithfully on the team some eight or ten years. It seems that Harvard is not going to build Finnish or Turkish baths on Soldiers Field. E. Plato Ward, an American, is accredited with having won the annual Parisian cross country race, through the Bois and back to Zellies...