Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ankles Preferred (Madge Bellamy). A progression of pretty models through a series of French negligee adventures affords an opportunity to display trim figures, latest styles, tricky subtitles. The title derives from the heroine's cynical observation that the villainous capitalist would possess her for her flesh rather than her soul which, by contrast, is what interests the hero...
...Boston, Mass., the Boston Bruins, professional hockey team, met the Ottawa Senators, professional hockey team, in the opening game of a series to determine which team should possess the Stanley Cup, emblematic of world's championship. Sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick as elusive puck. The game was marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Overtime failed to develop more than a scoreless...
Continuing, Professor Chaffee said, "it is very doubtful if television will ever be of as general use as radio now is for several reasons. In the first place, to operate television correctly calls for more technical skill, than most people possess. Then too, the apparatus used in sending pictures over wire, is very bulky and expensive...
...from Hindu literature and from Egyptian temples and tombs. All this goes to prove precisely nothing at all; for all these quotations find a place in Catholic thought. Mr. Hale, like a great many other people, is unaware of the fact that Catholics believe that all great world faiths, possess part of the whole truth and that their principal tenets may be found in the all-embracing tenets of the Catholic Charch. For this reason, the quotations given by Mr. Hale on the Symphony program and the words of great philosophers such as Tagore can be and are read without...
When have Americans, as represented by their major writers and public characters, been sufficiently the masters of their environment to live symmetrically, to possess a vital native culture...