Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Partners in Crime. Wallace Beery, stupid sleuth, is told to "go and make a down payment on a brain, as everybody else has one." Raymond Hatton, sometimes a scampering reporter and sometimes a knife-wielding gangster, is the cause of Mr. Beery's bewilderment. There are funnier things in the world than mistaken identity, but they are not present in this film...
...number of Communists holding seats in the Chamber of Deputies was halved last week as Frenchmen balloted overwhelmingly for candidates favorable to Conservative Prime Minister Raymond Poincare...
Most monkeys are gay & cheerful, but the proboscis monkey from Malaysia and the howling monkey from the tropics are a pair of supercilious snobs. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the N. Y. Zoological Garden has kept a howling monkey for three years only by pampering and coddling it, keeping it in a fine special cage, with "Vitaglass" windows to admit the ultraviolet...
...these was Raymond whom both Daisy and Daphne loved-Daisy poignantly, Daphne lightheartedly. In due course, he proposed marriage to Daphne, thus precipitating between her and Daisy an emotional crisis, composed not, as one might have thought, of jealousy or renunciation, but of the fears and vacillating doubts of Daisy's soul. Closer indeed than David & Jonathan, closer even than Manuel & Esteban, for on page 143 it comes out, with cleverly achieved unexpectedness, that Daisy and Daphne are one and the same. And Daisy hopes that it will always be as Daphne that she appears-particularly to Raymond...
...hope is destroyed by her own suspicion that she cannot consistently play the part; by Raymond's discovery of her identity with Marjorie Wynne; and, climactically, if somewhat comically, by the revelation of her lowly origin. For her mother, "betrayed" in her youth by a gentleman (Daisy-Daphne's father), rises out of her recaptured East Sheen respectability, and waddles into Raymond's parental drawing-room to inquire into the intentions of Daisy's young...