Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi. Necessarily it was a long hunt; one must win the friendship of the Little People, the Pygmies, before one can start to track an okapi. The Pygmies- last remnants of the forest people which Stanley discovered - are suspicious, shoot poisoned arrows. Dr. Christy journeyed to the Ituri Forest on the Equator, west of Lake Albert and overlooked by the lofty snow-range of the Mountains of the Moon. There he lived for weeks in one of the Pygmy camps. After many disappointments, he at last saw a beam of sunshine...
...Liederman, Charles Atlas, Lionel Strongfort, Prof. Titus et al.; with "beauty poses" by Annette Kellermann, Mile. Nadje, Nana Sterling et al.) : YOU CAN DEVELOP EVERY MUSCLE IN YOUR BODY TO AMAZING PROPORTIONS YOU CAN ACQUIRE SUPER STRENGTH RIP OFF YOUR SHIRT "Come to me and I'll shoot you so full of strength and vitality you'll think it's your birthday. . . . This is no idle prattle, fellows. . . . I've got the works. . . ." YOUR WOMANLY BEAUTY CAN BE DEVELOPED THE BUST-HOW IT MAY BE DEVELOPED REDUCE YOUR BUST LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR...
...quick, strong and clever; Pancho was quicker, stronger and cleverer. The Terror would rush in and shoot his fists out with a snappy jerk, but those fists seldom hit anything except thin air. The sullen brown boy was .like a flea on hot bricks. He fought with his body close to the floor, thus reducing his five ft. one inch to something under three ft. As the big Bud approached, Pancho would spring into the air, punching, pounding and pulverizing that unfortunate Terror from Terre Haute...
...held up a passing automobile, forced the driver at pistol points to drive faster than the wind from the pursuing policemen. To all who attempted to stop them they leveled their pistols. Finally, the chase ended. Two patrolmen crowded the fleeing car onto the sidewalk. The patrolmen threatened to shoot. The murderers surrendered. They were Frank Rassi, taxicab chauffeur, and James Hughes, onetime pugilist. Their motive in killing Brennan was obscure; it was thought that it had something to do with bootlegging. "Bill" Brennan, aged 31, became famed when he stood up to Jack Dempsey at Madison Square Garden...
...Shooting of Dan McGrew. Another unconscious burlesque. Robert W. Service's poem, which is alternative to Gunga Din for insistent reciters, has been thrown together on the screen in just the way that might be expected. The Yukon episode, which forms the poem, has been prefaced by incidents in a South Sea dance hall and a Broadway cabaret, from which the greatest pleasure is derived when the cabaret burns down?but without the loss of the chief performer, Barbara La Marr. She plays the lady known as Lou, who runs away with the gambler Dan into the Klondike where...