Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There not long before, hordes of wiry, brown-skinned Filipinos clambered aboard six locomotives lying idle on the tracks, ran them defiantly out of sight and hearing...
...into the lake [Lake Erie]; poisoned themselves with morphine or raisin jack; or perished of cold, listlessly lost in despair." Late in 1922 smaller brains came to the anatomy rooms. "[Industrial] relief had come; though it was not apparent to the city, we knew that the end was in sight. Hope was restored again in those whose nervous systems had been shattered by defeat." In effect, Dr. Todd is a business prognosticator...
...legitimate profit. Eugene Fenmore (James Rennie), head of a high-principled gang plans his "jobs" in evening clothes, with the nicety of the inspired artist. While police are decoyed to the scene of a set-up brawl next door, his men rifle Goldberg's jewelry store in full sight of a pop-eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester Morris), first assistant safecracker, proved disobedient and plugged the doubly unfortunate Goldberg in the forbidden parts. For this treacherous, unwarranted homicide, Director-General Fenmore plugs Rocky. Two young innocents become entangled in the brutal...
...Demon Rum that she flushes her two little sons with anti-whiskey solutions. The result: one becomes a mute, the other a paralytic. Later in life, a thunderstorm suddenly starts up during the third act to provide atmosphere while the mute is engaged in raping a girl. This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right. The play's existence testifies to at least one of the evils of Prohibition...
...Makropoulos Secret, Donald Duff was inspired to write a play for Joanna Roos. He called it Stigma, produced it himself, acts in it and helps direct. Miss Roos also appears. The youthful hero, a Rhodes scholar, declares all colors and conditions of women are equal in his sight, proves his preaching by practicing it upon a professor's wife and her Negro maid. The maid begets a child, the wife goes crazy, the theory goes wrong. With such material, a play must achieve sublimity or absurdity. The professor's wife amazed everybody near the end by affirming herself...