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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Night Cry. There has never yet been a dog film that had a sensible plot. This one is the usual string of improbabilities pieced together to give Rin-Tin-Tin a chance. He, as a sheep dog, is accused of murdering baby lambs. Out of this cruel situation he extricates himself satisfactorily and (if you like Rin-Tin-Tin) entertainingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Films | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

Berresford will manage the University team in his Senior year, while Mulford will be in charge of the second string diamond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERRESFORD WINS DIAMOND BERTH--MULFORD RUNNER--UP | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

With his long beard a-bristle and his luminous eyes snapping, Premier Pashitch vowed that he will not convene the Narodna Skupstina until May 6, when it is due to assemble in normal course. He rapped out a string of oaths at a cabinet meeting and demanded that M. Raditch retract his charges. With an elaborate sneer, the Minister of Education tendered his resignation, together with those of his four Croatian fellow Ministers. King Alexander, seriously alarmed, was reported in late despatches to be attempting to reconcile Raditch and Pashitch; to restore outward harmony between the Croats who wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Grafter | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...human arm bone, embedded in caked mud and surrounded by a long string of bracelets, is the most striking feature of the collection of Indian relics which Mr. C. B. Cosgrove has brought back with him from New Mexico. Mr. Cosgrove, who has just returned to Cambridge, has spent the last two years in charge of the Peabody Museum expedition in the Mimbres Valley in south-western New Mexico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bracelet Bedecked Arm Is Among Relics of New Mexico Aborigines Unearthed by Head of Peabody Museum Expedition | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage. But one seldom meets anything else to match this. It is a crime against the gods of high romance for so matchless a string of yarns to be so drably treated

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Romance in Cocked Hats and Sbirt Sleeves | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

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