Word: sweethearted
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...strange associates are ironically reunited: the son, a young man inspired by the conviction of his father's innocence and depraved by the lust for revenge; the judge, driven periodically mad by flitting shadows of remorse; and the three guilty men, one the brother of the young man's sweetheart, another a tubercular killer, and the third a bloody, slimy, bullet-pierced specter. The cataclysm that follows is as staggering as so highly explosive material permits...
Engaged. Cinemactress Mary Pickford ("America's Sweetheart"), 43, divorced wife of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; and Charles ("Buddy") Rogers ("America's Boy Friend"), 32, curly-haired cinemactor; in Hollywood...
...Barnes), when Big Steve climbs into the ring with a professional wrestler imported by Bill. The wrestler throws Big Steve who, it appears, has lost $400 contributed by fellow workers to a benefit fund, through betting on himself. When things look their blackest, Big Steve learns that his faithless sweetheart really gave the money to her old friend Bill, who bet it on the professional. Big Steve fishes the bearer of the news, Mrs. Finney's little boy, out of a slag box just before a mass of red-hot slag pours into it. Afterward he smashes Bill Morgan...
...smuggling Chinese into the U. S., Sister is captured by a poetic Northern hunter who ties up his boat at Grass Margin for the night. When she becomes pregnant the hunter wants to marry her. Sister is being forced into a shotgun wedding by her dying father and casual sweetheart when her intelligent, cultivated grandfather saves her by taking her across the river to his own camp. The grandfather, a backwoods philosopher who reads Shakespeare, carves wooden figures and talks "noble platitudes" to the girl, also cares for her during her pregnancy, gets a wealthy New Orleans doctor...
Introduced by her grandfather to the intellectual life, by the doctor's wife to sophisticated social and artistic worlds, Sister remains in the wilderness after her grandfather dies. The villagers make fun of her, her highbrow friends desert her, and she often goes hungry. Her girlhood sweetheart Mitch Holt serves a prison term in Atlanta, returns to the River, marries her, settles down. Infidelities, doubts, constant hardships mar their marriage, but Sister, pained more by Mitch's growing contentment than by his occasional wildness, dreads most of all her power to tame him, fights the tendency...