Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near-stars that oven though the theme of the picture revolves around the constant marital bickerings of a rich and sophisticated couple the production can be easily classed among the list of better talkies. Mary Brian, Kay, Francis, Frederick March, Huntley Gordon and Lilian Tashman, not to forget five rampant little children,- all lend their personalities to the show to lift it from the rank of just ordinary movies. The youthful Miss Brian and Mr. March have the leads but the quintet of children, vivacious and at all times natural, almost steal the show from the two stars on several...
...there should have been bonfires, triumphant parades, lusty bellowing of the Internationale in Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat and shiny workman's cap. Yes, he had something to say to correspondents...
...citizens realize that he went out of office in 1909, that he was not Prime Minister of France during the first three years of the war. As editor of L'Homme Libre and, when that was suppressed, of L'Homme Enchaine, he preached such deathless, rampant patriotism, printed such reckless denouncements of even highest government officials when he suspected them of pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative...
...still the index for those who would adhere to the spirit of the amateur. Not one, but three, may raise their heads and walk proudly among the colleges. There is little fear that the major ills of which the Carnegie report treats will become epidemic. They have long been rampant, and the cycle points downward. Misapprehension that the frontier football spirit will ricochet back to the Eastern seaboard is not so much the belief of intelligent students of the game, as that the Eastern attitude may soon go West. The trail has already been blazed, and while older institutions...
...fact that college years begin in the fall has something to do with it too. The adjectives applied to autumn weather--crisp, brisk, stimulating--are always suggestive of activity. Who knows what the effect would be if the opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There...