Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce issued an invitation to women leaders to establish a sort of Chautauqua to which clubwomen from surrounding states might come for three months each summer. Permanent buildings were to be erected, and it was expected some 3,000 would annually visit there. Merchants were pleased. Then the storm broke. Artists of many kinds who had gone to Santa Fe to make the old city their home, residents who had been attracted by its ancient beauty, rose in protest. "What will happen to our fine old town," they asked, "if you bring here a transient population half as large...
...making prohibition speeches. Mr. Wheeler said Upshaw of Georgia, Cooper of Ohio, Barkley of Kentucky, Lowry of Mississippi, Senator Jones of Washington, Senator Willis of Ohio. Mr. Wheeler was excused then to be called back later. What had already occurred, however, though not sensational, was enough to arouse a storm. The New York Daily News, gumchewers' sheetlet exclaimed (of Wheeler's League): ". . . This incubus on American liberty, this tumor of religion perverted to bigotry and tyranny, must be cut out of the body politic." In Congress Senator Willis exclaimed: "I am not now and never have been...
...Truth. A slim little comedy slipped quietly in last week, sold a few laughs, and shocked no one. It is a play about a street urchin who posed for a city statue. That was the point of the title. It seems more than probable that the Civic Virtue statue storm of the Hylan administration years ago in New York inspired the endeavor. With Irish street comedy and thin slices of plain folks philosophy it wandered along amiably enough. There were no eminent performers. The opening night a grey kitten strolled unexpectedly into the middle of one of the emotional crises...
...fellows of 65 and over. Out of 1,000 of these divorced boys, 116 play harps in heaven; out of 1,000 single fellows of the same age group, 112 enter the angelic host; while out of 1,000 married youngsters of the same age-group, only 80, with 'storm and strife' to contend with, knock at St. Peter's Pearly Gates...
Tramp, Tramp (Harry Langdon). Frantic farce cannot be estimated in detail. Such a critique would simply be a catalogue of gags. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is such a catalogue. It is one of those pictures in which a man gets into bed with an electric fan and emerges in a storm of feathers. There is a plot about a cross-country race to advertise a shoe store. Mr. Langdon is often funny. The picture is often funny...