Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese character but as crooked as the letter S. He tosses a Caucasian girl behind a secret panel and in the last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...
Like almost all of Sabatini's romances, "Hounds of God" is written according to a fixed formula. It follows perfectly conventional lines, bringing forth nothing novel in the way of plot or characterization...
Negotiations are now under way between Mayor Quinn of the City of Cambridge and Harvard University for the ceding of the land now occupied by the Old Gymnasium to the City in exchange for the plot of land in front of Austin Hall, bounded on two sides by Holmes Place...
...burned to the ground. Dr. Straton and his wife, who were spending a few days at their summer home at the other end of Greenwood Lake, rushed to the hotel in time to hear the final crackles of the fire. Like Senator Heflin of Alabama, Dr. Straton smelled a plot by his enemies...
...view this week at the Keith-Albee Memorial Theatre in "Take Me Home." A comedy of the chorus girl and the yokel boy-friend, this picture manages to be quite funny in spots, and at least has the pleasing feature of being constantly on the move. With no plot to speak of, the picture does not suffer as the cavortings of the Bebe and Joe Brewn suffice...