Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wang the farmer now becomes the patrician head of the House of Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...
...blackening the sky. Some of these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally the wind comes, blowing the locusts back up the valley. Back to the sing-song house goes Lotus. Back to the land goes Wang. Back to Olan, just in time, go the pearls...
...cheering celebrants ushered in an eight-day revival of St. Paul's historic wintersports carnival, last Saturday night. Not since most of them were youngsters, 20 years ago, had the members of South St. Paul's* old "Hook 'Em Cow Club" had such a night to sing their song. Not since the national American Legion convention of 1924 had downtown St. Paul swarmed with such noisy, enthusiastic thousands...
...supposed to portray a child s imaginings of his own adventures with a band of opéra bouffe robbers. The boy grinds a hurdy-gurdy drawn by a mule while his mother and grandfather sing. When the robbers hide a stocking full of gold in the hurdy-gurdy, the fun starts. Unable to get at the booty, the robbers get the elders drunk, drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They...
...historic hits as Dnloy (1921), To the Ladies (1922), Merton of the Movies (1922), Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Cocoannts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), Animal Crackers (1928), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight (1932), Let 'em Eat Cake (1933), Merrily We Roll Along (1934), First Lady (1935). This season George Kaufman was once more Broadway's Man-of-the-Year when he turned out two more smashing box-office successes: Stage Door (with Edna Ferber...