Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ensuing free-for-all, goes into partnership with him in the trapping business. Hero is brawny but brainless, is easily tricked by Villain, who runs off with Heroine to wicked Manhattan. When Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries to work it, throws good money after bad. In increasing frenzy he dissipates all his ill-gotten gains on the infernal machine. Hero, after misadventures, tracks him down. From this point the plot thickens, twists...
...humor that is this picture's main distinction. Clara Bow does nothing much but does it with her usual vitality. A picture star having fun in Europe, she is married in an early sequence to a bridegroom who is standing proxy for somebody else. Events lead naturally to a pursuit in pajamas through a magnificent suite in a continental hotel where every double bed contains Charles Ruggles, who is there by mistake. He does his famous drunk act, but the best shot is the one in which he imitates...
...first two units of the new Harvard House Plan, possesses, in addition to many other most desirable qualities, a spirit of co-operation. He is, furthermore, a good sport. He can make the best of things. He had to the other day! The Transcript photographer, in pursuit of a half dozen interior views of the new Houses (they appeared Saturday) with which to supplement the "layout" of the exterior "shots" previously published in the Transcript (last Wednesday), arrived at the doorway of Mr. Hammond's beautifully finished and furnished suite simultaneously with a half dozen or more of the head...
...plane, which carries a crew of three (pilot, photographer, radioman) is capable of 150 m. p. h. with normal load of 2,443 Ib.?faster than any U. S. military planes except small pursuit craft. Machine guns are mounted fore & aft. It is primarily designed for long-range reconnaissance and photographic work. But at the Fokker plant in Teterboro, N. J. a plane nearly identical was being completed with the utmost secrecy. Reporter Bruce Gould of the New York Evening Post, who inadvertently happened upon it while on another mission, reported it to be "[a] pursuit-bomber . . . long nosed...
...night towards Utica. This time he smashed a window, shot the guard's gun out of the guard's hand, kept him covered until the train got to Utica. There he boarded a locomotive and raced off down the track with another locomotive full of angry police in pursuit. Suddenly Perry reversed his engine, opened fire, pursued his pursuers until he ran out of steam. He escaped, held up a farmer, stole a horse, was captured by a posse, sentenced to gaol for "as long as he could see." In gaol, he tried to blind himself with needles, was called...