Word: smoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know I never bother to memorize the words to my songs very carefully, and even if I did, I wouldn't remember them. I just put in 'Get hot!' or 'Come on, brother, smoulder!', wherever I forget the words, and it goes over just as well...
...long time I have been questioning myself whether to leave the diary in existence or not. But I'd better not leave it, I see." In Paris, a fire was built and on the fire were placed the first pages of the diary. Like the fires that smoulder in the autumn along country roads, this fire burned slowly and with an acrid smoke as if there had been some bitter taste in the old crisp leaves that it was compelled to chew. For two days the secrets that had been written down so neatly upon paper, were translated into...
...anti-foreign movement in China (TIME, July 6 et seq.) continued to smoulder. Only at Nanking did a flame burst forth. That was when a British subject was killed in a factory near that town. Vast volumes of smoke, in the shape of talk, gave tangible evidence that Chinese fires of hatred had in no way been extinguished in other places...
...that superlative creature," is married to a drink and dope addict. Her strong, silent friend (Tearle) takes the addict down to the seashore and kills him with a heroin and whisky cocktail. Returning, he vilifies the lady's father who has made the match and watched it smoulder because of his own ambitions toward the peerage. The girl falls, as planned, into the arms of a more agreeable matrimonial prospect...
...across an apartment house court on an ironing board. Even May McAvoy, who generally seems real even when the rest of the picture goes hang, is made to appear just a goofy little birdie. At that, the picture might have held the interest if it weren't allowed to smoulder out at the end, when the murderer is unmasked in a cloud of subtitles. It looks as if somebody started out to make a bedroom farce and then thought of making it a thriller...