Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Take It From Me (Reginald Denny). A young man is at great pains to bankrupt his large department store, in order to rid himself of a fiancée with designs upon his money. Hence, floorwalkers go roller-skating along the aisles, a "million dollar" fashion show is wedged into the film. He loses the undesirable fiancée, almost loses the store, wins the beautiful stenographer. But this, Take It From Me, is nothing to go out of the way to encounter...
...will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor. The storm passed in the night. But only with convulsive effort and in the space of a year did Polcastrians rid themselves of Harmer John, as they, first in affection, later in derision and finally in hate, miscalled him. During that year he encountered, with unintentionally poignant results, the public and secret lives of nearly all the town-among others...
...Humble. In reproving contrast to The Noose (see below) stands a play fashioned from Dostoievsky's Crime and Punishment. Herein a Russian student is goaded to murder by what he considers a rational motive: to rid the world of a monster. His tortured philosophy fails to comprehend the final principle of rational thought, "the law that there shall be law." The story-teller fastens upon the young man's soul, wrings it, twists it, wracks it, as only a Russian can, or would. The play follows the novel's torments through hours of merciless misery. That...
...fame, a smuggler and a man who was being convicted and sentenced to death for murder." Other evidence did not warrant the belief of his story. Also Judge Thayer could find no "fraudulent conspiracy between the Governments of the U. S. and the State of Massachusetts" to get rid of the two radicals...
Milk submitted to the rays was pasteurized (rid of bacteria, including spores, which it ordinarily takes three heatings to kill) al- most instantaneously-but contracted an unpleasant flavor...