Word: stark
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recover from her wounds, while the 6,000 people jabbered with alarm and the tigers were led out of the arena to their cages, looking less decrepit now, and licking their muzzles with junglar ferocity. The history of the lady was made public after the accident. She was Mabel Stark, once the chief ornament of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey "cat-acts." In these she allowed herself to be embraced by a tiger, something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals, Mabel...
...author's genius is undeniable in the earliest story, "Little Herr Friede-mann," the stark, pathetic account of a hunchback, whose reasoned contentment is shattered by his sudden love for a flashing Valkyrish woman. Her cruel scorn for his declared love drives him to drowning himself ludicrously?head in the river, feet on the bank...
...family thinks she is stark, staring "buggy." But she tells her father her secret. He, a kindly babbitt, understands and finally helps Patsy to find the arms of the realtor...
...Hills" is much better in film form than as a novel, because it reveals the heart of the Arkansas-Missouri Ozarks in all their beauty, picturesqueness, and wildness. In a glorious setting we have a typical elemental drama of emotion among the Arkansas mountain folk. Feuds, stills, stark love, stark hate, stark death, are all mixed in best First National style. The conglomeration, however, is successful and the film deserves to be shown in the same theatre at which Paul Whiteman and his kingly entourage plays "Rhapsody in Blue...
France. Since Frenchfolk are proverbially less hardy than Britons, despatches reported no skating orgies or icewater swims in France, but rather much stark misery...