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...expect a man to make one mistake-but only one." Betty Compson, looking her prettiest, is probably so well-behaved because the picture was directed by her future husband, James Cruze. The story of this girl, angling for a husband among various flirtatious businessmen, gathers headway slowly, as respectably riotous films often do. But it is true to life in that the girl, faced with marrying the man who has wealth and position to give her (Huntly Gordon), or the man who has nothing but his drunken habits (Percy Marmont), chooses the latter...
...next ballot, however, saw Governor Lowden coming to the fore. Despite, his repeated assurances that he was not a candidate, the delegates flocked to his banner, and amid riotous applause, his nomination was announced. Uncertainty as to his acceptance was still so strong, however, that a recess was declared during which Chairman F. W. Mondell of Wyoming, communicated with the ex-governor of Illinois...
...died out. When the result of the ballot was read, it was learned that Carter Glass had 710 votes or 3 too few for the nomination. A motion to nominate him by acclamation failed and after a ten minute recess the seventh ballot was taken. Amid Harvard cheers and riotous disorder, a strong crowd came out for Mr. McAdoo, but glass received the nomination by the margin of three votes. Senator Walsh of Montana was given the nomination for vice president by acclamation SUMMARY OF BALLOTING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Glass...
...riotous Crimson first inning can not be laid entirely at Robinson's door. His infielders helped the Harvard cause by contributing two atrocious errors. These, added to three hits and a wild pitch, gave the University five runs, quite enough to win. Thereafter Robinson raised havoc with the Harvard batting averages. Crimson bats swung vainly at his offerings, although one more run was marked up in the third by a base on balls and two errors...
...appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, it tells, in music, the tale of the return to earth of the spirits of soldiers slain in the late War. Instead of the solemn masses, purity, virtue, which they expect to find as a result of their sacrifices, they discover shameful and riotous dancing, sinful and boisterous merrymaking. The music is a fairly effective translation of this situation into sound. The mood throughout is one of gruesome hilarity. Ordinary dance-rhythms alternate with the booming of guns and the spirited tarantaras of the military bugle...