Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faintly drumming vamp. Into a pool of amber light on the empty stage, stepped a small woman with hair of jet, a stocky little figure in velvet flounces, with a broad, flat face of extraordinary mobility. Her black eyes grew slowly wider and deeper as a spattering storm of applause burst upon her, swelled and rumbled with calls of "Brava! Brava!" which took five minutes to blow over...
...Then broke forth a four-day storm of debate. The chief argument against the committee's decision against the unseating of Brookhart was advanced by Senator Bingham and others, who said that Brookhart had been elected by the rules of Iowa governing ballots, that the Senate Committee had no right to go behind the Iowa law questing for the "intent" of the voter...
...Premier Jon Bratiano's Liberal party has indeed been losing ground, as was indicated recently at the minor municipal elections; and with the parliamentary elections now immediately in the offing, it was thought that he would prefer to step down from power a little in advance of the coming storm. The correspondents seized upon every rumor that he had resigned and cabled it as news...
Bride of the Storm is a pretty bad melodrama about a girl who was stranded on a distant reef inhabited by horrible men with bad ideas. She is rescued by a lovely young lieutenant, and none too soon you may be sure. Dolores Costello, loveliest and latest discovery among actresses, is wasted in the part...
THREE KINGDOMS-Storm Jameson-Knopf ($2.50). One of the first things that will strike you about Miss Jameson is that she belongs to that widening circle of young Britishers who have fallen into the habit of calling a spade a double-blank, worm-turning, corrupt appendage of his Satanic majesty. Some call it the return of Elizabethan zest, all this hardriding, goddamning and firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows...