Word: sided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, simple enough to make fun of the cinema magnates for their insistence on backstage and pseudo-collegiate subject matter, but it is totally unfair not to realize that there is much to be said on their side. The filmgoers have demonstrated with some conclusiveness that they want frequent musical numbers in their pictures, yet with equal certainty they have shown that they want the songs to be embedded in the plot with some show of realism. A stage musical comedy can interrupt the story with a song cue and introduce, with no apologies at all, tenors, sopranos and dancing...
...after experience as Editor of the New York Mirror (since sold by Hearst) and President of the New York American. The second son, his father's namesake, is only 22 but already his thin young face wears deep marks of experience and looks like his sire's from the side...
...Kirksville, Mo., gunmen accidentally shot Mrs. William Wilson through the left breast. She did not die. An X-ray showed that her heart was on her right side...
...produced gargantuan quantities of newspaper criticism of all the arts. Everywhere he drank beer and talked. Says Editor Mencken: "I have heard them all, but he was the best." Critic Huneker is generally credited with having been "the chief man in the movement of the '90s on this side of the ocean." Among his books: Chopin: The Man and His Music; Ivory Apes and Peacocks; Steeplejack; Painted Veils...
...dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned wrong there; blindness is an exciting business, I tell you; if you don't believe it, get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed and your house is on fire and try to find the door...