Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Venus of Venice (Constance Talmadge). The coy heroine dives frequently and attractively from the second story balconies of Venetian palaces into stagnant canal water in this trivially amusing comedy. She impersonates a gaminish thief. Antonio Moreno plays the harassed, handsome and wealthy hero who inevitably reforms...
Others of the clay frontierswomen are as frail as Lillian Gish (F. Lynn Jenkins'), as strong as Abe Lincoln (James Fraser's), cute as Ann Pennington (Mario Korbel's), homely as Will Rogers (Mahonri Young's), expressionless as the Venus de Milo (Arthur...
...Venus à la Mode" depicts a committee at work with tape measures and other engineers' paraphernalia measuring the head, arms, bust, waist, legs of a young miss for the spiritual title of "Miss New York," or Miss Philadelphia," it is not certain which...
...Hymn to Venus--in the Harvard Manner...
...have to know your business around here, and its a mighty complicated one. First you break your back talking Jupiter or that Venus for a ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...