Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This film about acrobats is devised entirely for one episode which occupies a tenth of a second and takes place on a trapeze, half way to heaven. The key of the episode is a mechanical trick. Few pictures constructed on such a formula have been successful, but in Half Way to Heaven the mechanical trick is original, credible. The episode hinging on it is strenuously exciting. An acrobat climbing up his wire ladder in a tent show to do a double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like...
...week President Hoover good naturedly watched his "Commission-a-Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could not put 100 million dollars in jail. The President's efforts to make Washington a model dry city were parodied with "The Song...
Last week, upon announcement of the dividend omission the stock tumbled from a resting place at 33 to a new low of 27 while the preference stocks concluded a drop that carried them from...
...some shrubbery for condiment. The dead head presumably was especially tasty, for the eater, it now seems, tore it from the body, gnawed it and threw it away to disintegrate. The second comer died; a third, a fourth, a succession of ten. The last decayed with his head in place...
Significant coincidents took place during the last fortnight in motorless flight circles...