Word: scorpio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventh of the zodiac's twelve signs, should have musical ability. Libra's children are those born from September 24 to October 23. Looking up the birth dates of 1,498 musicians, Dr. Farnsworth found that fewer were born under this sign than under any other except Scorpio. Libra and Scorpio were in fact tied for last place as musician-makers. Thus in picking a musical sign the astrologists could have made ten better choices than Libra, could not have made a worse...
Last Tuesday, Mr. Gale, an Australian, discovered a disturbance which be declared to be a comet of the tenth magnitude, in Scorpio, near Mars, and moving coastward, though not fast enough to have gotten out of telescopic range...
Wallace Beery, as "Slaughterhouse" Scorpio, the here of this grim piece, played his usual type of simple-minded, not too quick-willed person in his customary style. Lewis Stone gave a good performance as the lawyer who always got the boys out of jail "in the morning." Jean Haulowe, the feminine lead, was not on the screen too often. The whole cast displayed a tendency to give the usual Hollywood version of that elusive creature called the "hard-boiled egg." The grease-paint and the voice of the director were painfully present. It is rather to be suspected that...