Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms as with this world we live in. Flashes of vivid satire, bits of brutal delight gleamed in his dialog like gold nuggets. The rest was sand and water...
...with a sword that when a fat old sheik, bargaining over a contract with the French Government, suggests a clause which will present him with the possession of a beautiful American woman, Major Beaujolais dares to refuse with equable asperity. Then there are several reels of sharp sabre-play, sand, and mine explosions. Lastly, the old sheik accepts a contract which omits the tur-pitudinous Santa clause; the lady properly rewards her sabreur...
...impersonations. Noah Beery is the lascivious old sheik, and highly satisfactory as such. Evelyn Brent, who plays opposite Emil Jannings in The Last Command (TIME, Jan. 30), does well indeed as the somewhat helpless heroine. Gary Cooper is lanky and effective as the able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt of shining yellow snow...
Died. Vicente Blasco Ibanez, most famed living Spanish author [Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Mare Nostrum; Blood and Sand; Alfonso XIII Unmasked (banned in his own country); others] ; of bronchial pneumonia; at his villa in Menton, France, where he lived, a voluntary exile. Of Spain under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he wrote: ". . . it de-teriorates." His monarch he called "slave." In retaliation, a Spanish diplomat, the Marques de Merry del Val, explained: ". . . his loose, inaccurate style has pre-vented him . . from admission...
Most startling and important was the discovery of blood corpuscles in the mummified remains. This is the first occasion on which a corpuscle has ever been yielded by a mummy. In addition the remains were generally in such a good state of preservation that sand could be found in the lungs of petrified Indians. Lung disease was disclosed similar to that disease so common among the inhabitants of dusty cities. Tuberculosis germs were furthermore detected and it is supposed that the Basket Maker tribe fought against a high death rate...