Word: sheiks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Juror Kidwell, a sallow youngish man, is not what Washingtonians would call a "drugstore cowboy" and certainly not a "street sheik" just a chinless young man with prominent eyes and ears Who rather en joyed his sudden importance His soft-drink cronies would ask him about the trial and he welcomed the opportunity to give what he considered dark hints of mysterious grandeur. He would say that Harry Sinclair was a "nice, democratic guy in spite of all his money" He would say that he, Edward Kidwell was a "pretty good yes-and-no-man" and that he was "just...
...schools and seldom played, appeared last week. A meagre English wage earner disappears over the hills of dreams into an Eastern land. He murders the ruler; rules in his stead; smiles at his consort, a fair but evil-tempered English girl. She plots his death with an envious sheik; he escapes through a secret door; awakes; relieved that life is monotonous, secure. This difficult, often beautiful fantasy was given by the resolute group that is left from the defunct Neighborhood Playhouse.* They gave it well on an obviously limited expense account. Why it has never been given by a commercial...
...Satin Woman (Mrs. Wallace Reed). The heroine is a Mother. In order to save her daughter from a cabaret sheik, she vamps the man herself. This is doubly effective strategy, for it succeeds in recapturing the interest of her own husband, who has been straying toward a passionate brunette. When the entire family has been corralled, Mother gives up the fashion shows and night clubs to return to the hearth. Thus the dumpling of Virtue is set, though not obtrusively, upon the hotcakes of Hollywood...
Engaged. Vilma Banky, who acted with the late Rudolph Valentino in his last picture The Son of the Sheik; to Rod La Rocque, lanky cinemactor; in Hollywood...
...What is a shrike? (Not to be confused with shriek or sheik...