Word: urchins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came into the stretch last week at Rockingham Park Race Track (near Salem, N. H.) the urchin who was riding Quick Step scarcely heard the crowd at the rail yelling, "Come on, Westrope." Jockey Westrope paid more attention to the pounding of hoofs coming up closer and closer behind him, made by Bun D, with Jockey Porter up. He drew his whip, leaned forward in his stirrup, almost lifted Quick Step across the finish line-still ahead by barely a nose. It was the second race that Jockey Westrope had won that afternoon. It brought his record for the year...
...corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform of widespread fraud. Before Dana had finished, every street urchin knew the phrase, and Kemble was behind bars. Even President Cleveland feared the power of Dana's pen, tried to buy up the Sun to muzzle his attacks. In the 30 years of Dana's reign, the Sun trebled its circulation, added an evening edition...
...Wings reimbursed his parent. The Wings' camera shows Ahmang and Sai-Yu dog-paddling about the bottom of the ocean wearing handkerchiefs around their middles and picking oysters. They encounter surprisingly mild adventures when stranded on a cannibal island. The Wings also discovered a chipper little urchin called Ko-Hai. Ko-Hai was foolish enough (in Lori Bara's little story) to be bitten to death by a shark. After his funeral, Ahmang avenges this mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically...
...queer gathering has assembled to bid for the U. S. rights to a contraption called the radioscope, invented by a palsied Chinese. From time to time the inventor gives demonstrations of his machine: they show such radio folk as Rudy Vallée, Stoop-nagle & Budd, a wretched urchin called Baby Rose Marie performing their specialties. Miss Joyce is on hand looking, naturally, for a millionaire. A young employe of American Electric Co. (Stuart Erwin) is accused of having measles, causes the International House to be placed in quarantine. He finally manages to buy the rights to the radioscope, escape...
...most unforgettable cinema villains of the year. After a look at the murderer, you are shown the effect which a series of his crimes has had upon the city where he lives. Tipplers in beer gardens suspect each other of being monsters. An elderly gentleman who tells an urchin what time it is is nearly mobbed. The police make a dragnet around the town, question hundreds of suspects, arrive at no conclusions. Finally the outlaws of the town-pickpockets, forgers, cardsharps, safe-blowers, burglars, beggars, all of them under closer scrutiny than usual because of the child murders-form...