Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reviewer's toy-soldier age, which coincided with the early years of the war, there appeared a succession of war stories like Empey's "Over the Top" and Collins' "Outwitting the Hun," that gave him vicariously--and diluted--the thrills of combat. Such books stood on the seven-day shelves of American libraries, and though they protested stoutly and even violently their fairness, they had their little part in arousing the sentiment of 1917. As books, they were fitting for the toy-soldier age. Private Suhren is a definitely more matrue volume than these, and while it does...
Vivacious and increasingly competent as an actress, Lupe Velez was born in San Luis Potosi, seven days by donkey from Mexico City. When she was twelve she danced at a church festival. A booking agent, impressed, hired her as ballerina for a theatrical troupe. Her family thought a convent would be better for her. After two years in Our Lady of the Lake, at San Antonio, Tex., she went back to Mexico to dance. She was in Monterey with a musical comedy called Rataplan when someone from Hollywood saw her and took her north. She worked for a month...
...hurry from place to place, carrying heavy paraphernalia, cameramen are now pushed about in soundproof wheeled booths invented to keep the whir of the camera from recording on the sound-device. Last week two specimen cameramen, one Ed Du Par and one Ray Foster, both of Warner, gained respectively seven pounds, 15 pounds...
...Seven men and music make the story of Helma Seymour, a pretentious life cycle of a U. S. prima donna which begins in a mid-western town and revolves ironically to a prosperous and almost respectable middle...
...Collins, 2OI½ Ibs., British, clumsy, looked down at one of his large feet last week and perceived that he had stove it right through the racing shell in which he and seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke, was stricken with mortification and dismay. Sticking your foot through the shell at rowing is equivalent to trampling a hound in a hunt or blowing off your neighbor's hat at a grouse shoot. Fortunately for Cambridge, a new shell had already been ordered. When a shell was damaged in 1906 just...