Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursuit of him are two none too desirable females. One is French, correct, cold, a poor mixer. The other has red hair and a reputation tinged to match. She saves her hero's life in time to get the curtain down on an inordinately leaden evening...
...Woman and Sin. Under this unpretentious title, John Gilbert, in the role of a cub-reporter, pursues Sin as ably impersonated by Jeanne Eagels. The climax of his pursuit occurs when he murders the source of the demimondaine's income; she perjures herself to avoid scandal; and then, because she loves the cub-reporter, confesses her paying to save his life. The able direction of one-time newspaperman Monta Bell, the able performances of Actor Gilbert and of Actress Eagels, make it possible to forgive certain weaknesses in the story. The weakness of the conclusion in which Mr. Gilbert...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh went last week to aviation school. By direction of President Coolidge, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air corps at Selfridge Field, Mich. He will fly the latest army pursuit plane; participating as an ordinary military pilot in routine gunnery training exercises; concentrating on machine gunnery fire at stationary targets and targets towed by other planes...
...year, the flowers which might else blush unseen but by a few in the "Announcement of Courses of instruction". With this in view he has with few exceptions up to the present, been active upon his roller-skates which were given him by an anonymous benefactor in the pursuit of knowledge from New Lecture Hall to the marble grandure of Widener, from the hallowed dimness of Emerson to the fastnesses of Fogg...
Died. Wilson D. Kenzie, 83, who on April 14, 1865, aged 21, saw President Abraham Lincoln assassinated, who later with a party of soldiers went in hot pursuit of Assassin John Wilkes Booth; at Baltimore...