Word: storming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impaled on treacherous reefs. They are gradually carried off by grace of the wireless and the breeches buoy. The young commander, who must absolve himself from the taint of cowardice inherited from poltroon father, is torn between love and his duty to stick by his ship in a storm. Rod La Rocque is excellent, not only in his heroic moments, but in the dramatization of the inhibition that is the backbone of this story. Jacqueline Logan is convincing as the girl who believes...
...spared their dignities and their heads by a well-earned distribution of raiment. The American has had his "red-cost", the Chinaman his Manchu queue, the English Cavalier his ground-heard the Frenchman his culottes Descending from the national level even the "Harvard hat" has been its own little storm, center of parental wrath...
...campaign against the Manchu dynasty was intensified and from foreign soils he led the Young China Party in its ultimately victorious battle against the Emperor. In 1911 the storm of Revolution at last began to discharge its lightning; Dr. Sun hurried to China, became first Provisional President. On Jan. 5, 1912, the Chinese Empire became the Republic of China: the Manchus had been deposed, but the six-year- old boy-Emperor was allowed to keep his title for life and the Government promised to grant him a yearly subsidy for the same period...
...Neill's new play on the mating of blacks and whites (TIME, March 17) lived up to expectations by turning into a news event. It had been preceded by a storm of protest from various sections of the metropolis and the U. S. at large, though nothing like a race riot seemed likely. At the first performance, the Provincetown Theatre group announced that Mayor Hylan had refused to sanction the appearance of black and white children in the first scene of the play, designed to show that with children there is no color line...
...Storm-trod, nearer God, flung into the fright...