Word: roam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State. Many stressed the excitement in Republican circles upon the release of their leader, and mildly wondered if it would lead to more violent trouble...
...spite of all the reforms which have been brought to pass by an enlightened society, descendants of Fagin and Bill Sykes still roam the wilds of Whitechapel. If anything, their numbers have greatly increased since the days when the Artful Dodger and his merry associates removed pocket bandkerchiefs from the coat-talls of respectable old gentlemen, and disturbed the waking hours of Bow Street Magistrates. Human nature is still a checkered pattern of blacks and whitos...
...crook melodramas, first presented by Mrs. Fiske 20 years ago, has been revived by William A. Brady with a stellar cast which proves that all actors are ham under the skin when allowed to run rampant. In this case the director seems to have allowed them to roam at will. The air is thick with gestures and forbidding faces...
Permitting Chrystal Herne to roam at large as the girl from home, handling sentiment with veracity and putting the color of conviction upon the butterfly who bursts from her homespun cocoon. Miss Crothers, moreover, does not allow her to sacrifice a career on the alter of Willie's toothpaste. Louise Closser Hale (oldfashioned mother), Merle Maddern (vampire), Alan Brooks (artist) and Richard Sterling (Willie) are others who are sufficient unto their parts. The producers?Equity Players...
...public opinion by England through propaganda and censorship, coupled with Western ignorance and indifference, has resulted in the common misconceptions about India, and usual failure to appreciate true values in Indian affairs, according to Mr. Hossain. "The average American's idea of India is a place where elephants roam about and fortune-tellers line the streets; just as his idea of a Turk is a person who is constantly either wallowing in polygamy, or cutting the throats of Christians...