Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Goddesses", "Birds of Paradise" and the like who flutter in sparkling salons and produce impressions one very much like another, to see a picture in which there are no elaborately bejewelled sets, or sumptuously bedecked figures. Such a picture is the latest Metropolitan picture "A Girl in Every Port...
...matter of fact, the title is a little bit misleading. Victor McLaglen, who, in his ususal manner cuts an impressive figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture...
...that the World War Armistice was signed, Nov, 11, 1918, gallant Canadian troops took Mons. Recently a Canadian journal, the Port Hope Guide, said scathingly of this action...
...onetime Commander-in-Chief thus flayed is General Sir Arthur Currie, peppery, jealous of his honor, and, since 1920, the respected civilian Principal of famed McGill University. Last week he was engaged, at Cobourg, Ontario, in suing the Port Hope Guide for $50,000 damages...
...possets. Because he did not stick to that trade, but became a great poet and a greater dramatist, all Norway united, last week, to honor his birth-cen tenary with impressive ceremonies and revivals of his greatest plays at Oslo, Norwegian capital, and in Bergen, the sea port where he lived and labored for the theatre in his early years...