Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great middle classes of England. She is quite capable of entering into sympathetic regard for the particular individuals she portrays, and she has an excellent knowledge of the milieus within which these individuals act. Her book is not a merry tale for light, inattentive perusal around the Christmas tree or fire place, but is a highly stimulating, thought-provoking lesson in life because it sets down so objectively, almost without any comment whatsoever, the essential realities of people with whose problems, large and small, we should never have become acquainted had it not been for this worthwhile account by Lady...
...parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom she spent a happy night before her marriage. A gay, trivial, skillfully situated matrimonial comedy derived from last season's play The Vinegar Tree, Should Ladies Behave is most amusing when it shows two of the best dramatic actors in the U. S. cinema spreading their talents thickly upon slapstick scenes. Samples: Lionel Barrymore eating a cold duck with indigestive grunts; Alice Brady fluttering in unjustified anticipation when Max Lawrence tells her he is planning...
...guards he tore the gibbering black from his cell. Warner clung to the bars, to the railings of stairs, to doors, to the ground, to people, to anything he could lay his bleeding hands on. At the end of a rope he was hoisted into a tree. His gasoline-soaked clothing was touched into flame which cast an ugly glow upon the faces of a mob of 7,000 men, women & children...
...They climb in his window, bully his little daughter, argue drunkenly with him. When they propose to take him forcibly to apologize to the college president, he orders them out profanely. One lassoes him. The connotations of the rope and the song. "Hang him to a sour apple tree," suggest a lynching, get them half out the door with their man when the professor's wife appears in the doorway. In shuffling shame they drop their ropes, go mumbling away. When the authors finish with their hero, he is waiting to be hanged for an anti-war murder while...
...Green Bay Tree, Mary of Scotland, Men in White, The Dark Tower, Ten Minute Alibi...