Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flaming Forest (Antonio Moreno, Renee Adoree). Against a background of majestic mountains and lordly forests brooding over the hellish intrigues of red-skinned desperadoes, the Northwest Mounted are pictured in the first heroic adventure of their notable history. The immediate cause of their appearance: the sad plight of Actress Renee Adoree, menaced by a well filmed circle of fire, by a loathsome Indian scoundrel. Actor Antonio Moreno, sergeant, rides over tl hills, through the fire. The audience heartily endorses his oncoming, because Actress Adoree deserves an elegant rescue...
...living by denouncing the trend of the times. Mr. Hulbert lists quotations from American periodicals of about a century ago, all bemoaning the younger, generation, the spread of lawlessness, immorality, irreligion--in fact the conventional topics of the modern reformer. Thus from the annals of 1829 one learns the sad state of affairs: "And what of our youth? Today where one child hails with delight the Sabbath as the day for Bible study, one hundred young immortals are growing up in ignorance and sin." And no less pernicious is the morale of 1843--"It is clear that instead...
...much the same reason Henry Kendall, who plays the part of Heney, the young poet, fails to satisfy. He is too much All the Sad Young Men, and all that Mr. Kendall has any right to attempt is bondsalesmanship in three lessons. The extended paw and the unrelenting finger of the go-getter is his. His flair for comedy saves him at times, but after all nothing is so invaluable to a bond salesman as the ready joke...
...giant telegraph switchboard with 120 "positions" distributed his words to various newspapers; more telegraph wires than have been used for any news event* except the Tunney-Dempsey fight, crackled into action. The front page of the New York Mirror was covered with a picture of Mr. Mills kneeling in sad prayerful pose beside the open grave of his wife. The New York Times wrote about the trial as spaciously as if it were a polar exploration...
...Angeles boarding house. Next door lived a gentle Chinaman, who sold fruit and groceries. Perhaps this grocer was a relative of the Chinaman in London who sold ginger and started Author Thomas Burke on his notable career as the biographer of the Limehouse District. Perhaps not. But he soothed sad young Mr. Chrisman, by answering questions, telling stories...