Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Souls for Sables. The heart sinks at such a title. You can conjure the plot with the most elementary mental work. You know that some poor girl sold herself to some rich man and then was sorry. So she did. Running through the film there is a parallel tale of another girl who almost did the same thing. When girl No. 1 ended with a bullet in her heart, girl No. 2 hurried back to her husband. Claire Windsor is the principal performer...
...village so enormous there was no longer fun in boasting. Rosa's husband, fat, penniless, drunk, left for the South. Perhaps she would be his housekeeper; Mack had suggested it. She declined. Well, that was that. Perhaps he would find some one in the spring- and there the tale ends, exasperatingly inconclusive, like life...
Towards Swampscott rushed Lucius J. M. Malnin [sic], Federal Judge of the Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, purchased by the U. S. from Denmark in 1917). Judge Lucius had a tale of "maladministration of the Virgin Isles" by "seven U. S. governors, all navy officers, in seven years," to unfold to President Coolidge. He was told by Secretary Sanders, at Lynn, to hold his peace until the President should return to Washington. Then and there an interview will be accorded...
...Coming of Amos-Rod LaRoque's face has been widely distributed over the countryside on billboards announcing him as a star of the new Cecil B. DeMille organization. His first picture is a retelling of William J. Locke's tale of the young Australian roughneck who saves a Russian princess on the Riviera. Good enough...
...POOR NUT-An undergraduate tale of Phi Beta Kappa keys, track meets and coeds. Impossible but pretty funny...