Word: traders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three large murals by James E. McBurney, Chicago artist, were installed in the new Federal Bank and Trust Co., Dubuque, Ia. They represent Dubuque, the French trader, being shown the lead mines of the region by Sauk and Fox Indians; the first steamboat going up the Mississippi, watched with awe and premonition by aborigines on the bluff; the old ferry which bore the pioneer settlers in their " covered wagons " across the great river near Dubuque...
...down a waterfall-a thrilling scene. At the bottom, they find that the boats they had expected to find have been taken. He leaves her to get others. A storm comes up. She feels that she is committing an error, and crawls back. The native kills a brutal trader to whom her father was going to marry her, and she tells him that she cannot go with him. He kills himself. The whole story is told without heroics, without sentimentality, with a rich and mysterious beauty. It is a masterpiece. Safety Last. Harold Lloyd is one of the very...
...Emperor Jones" come to life, with sex and race transformed, Is the purport of a recent news-item from Australia. Elizabeth Mahoney, the widow of a South Sea trader, has returned to civilization after thirty-three industrious years on an island in the Antipodes During those years she has accumulated a fortune in gold, which she herself has mined; she has acquired a fleet of small boats, and incidentally has done the everyday tasks of carpentering, engineering, and the raising of-her own food-supplies. All these are mere incidentals. Her great achievement was in winning sovereignty over...
...equivocal character; one of those nondescript animals of the ocean that are neither fish, flesh, nor fowl . . . . somewhat of a trader, something more of a smuggler, with a considerable dash of the pickaroon . . . this cutpurse of the ocean...
...rich, musical voice is a delight in itself. His gradual degeneration from brazen self-assurance to abject terror proceeds by subtle and orderly degrees, and carries the audience along in cumulative terror. In the first act, a dialogue between the pullman-porter, emperor and Smithers, a while trader on his island empire, is all that makes up the action; yet in it the whole exposition is stealthily unfolded at the same time that the atmosphere of terror is being created. Beginning with the emperor's nocturnal fight, author and actor carry us through three scenes of steadily increasing intensity, each...