Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weary River. Richard Barthelmess has just the kind of pleasant tenor voice that you would expect from his face. "Weary River," the theme-song of his first sound-picture, is good enough to be fairly popular. Other films about crooks, however, have had far more interesting heroes than the gangster who develops such musical talent in the prison orchestra that his girl gives him up to let him have his chance in vaudeville. Other talkies have had better dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts...
Jerome David Kern, composer of Who, Kalua, Old Man River, etc. etc., and publisher of many another lip-to-lip tune, is a wealthy man who lives comfortably in Bronxville, N. Y. But not until last week was he a free man. Mr. Kern's 44th birthday fell last week...
Meyers Wilson ("K. O.") Christner, a little stolid and very solid, had knocked out 37 fisticuffers in 44 bouts. But he was almost unheard of east of Akron, Ohio, and west of the Mississippi River, until he demolished Knute Hansen and was signed up to fight Josef Paul Cukoschay ("Jack Sharkey") in Madison Square Garden last week...
Moreover, "no plan for the development of the region between Mount Auburn Street and the Charles River should be considered which is not the result of long study, and of planning ahead for the future," writes Chairman Pond. After stating its hypothesis of a new and second Yard, the Council report reads, "The plan attached is merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound...
...which are located the bones of a rhinoceros, so thickly scattered as to make an almost solid pavement. This slab has been prepared in such a way as to show the bones of the animal, in the position in which, they were washed in the bed of an ancient river. The slab was found in a prairie, which was formerly the bed of this river. The slab is to be placed in a glass case, the prepared surface having been varnished as a preservative...