Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shrew. In Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford made plans to appear together in an all-talking color-picture version of The Taming of the Shrew...
...Taming of the Shrew", Professor Murray, Harvard...
...Water Hole. As every cinemaddict knows, one of the sure-fire plots is the one about the vivacious, vampy heiress who is kidnaped by either a cowboy or an engineer who wants to tame the shrew. This time it (Jack Holt) is an engineer, though neither rod, bob nor transit appears in the Arizona locale. He abducts Judith (Nancy Carroll) because she won a bet with her cronies that she could make Engineer Randolph propose in a week. Hidden behind a window are the losing cronies who at the proper moment expose themselves, causing prodigious embarrassment to the engineer...
...Shrew...
Well aware that the best method of dealing with a shrew is to put her in the water, one George Hall, Manhattan insurance solicitor, was accustomed, when circumstances permitted, to soak Madeleine La Verne Hall, his wife. Last week, suing George Hall for a separation, she specified this practice as an example of his alleged cruelty. Sic: "Accompanying his actions by violent language, he threw the plaintiff, fully dressed, into the bathtub and turned on the shower, drenching her, and thereby endangering her health...