Word: richard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England a man was blown off London Bridge to drown in the Thames; and the statue of King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops...
...University was notified that he had won the 1928 Nobel prize for chemistry. Achievement: explanation of the nature of the provitamine, from which is derived Vitamine D, useful in curing rickets. Thus he became the second resident of Goettingen to be so honored. The other, Dr. Professor Richard Szigmondy, won the 1925 Nobel chemistry prize. The 1927 prize for chemistry was awarded to University of Munich's professor Heinrich Wieland...
...Richard Arlen and the slant-eyed Lilyan Tashman are accessories to the fact in this particular piece of mayhem...
...acting in Hotbed is enough to make it somewhat exciting. William Ingersoll is the bad goodman, Alison Bradshaw his daughter, and Richard Stevenson the assistant professor detected in a process of seduction...
...Cavalier has Richard Talmadge, long popular in horse-and-pistol pictures, playing two parts-El Caballero, rescuer of the daughter of an impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking...