Word: virtuouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RETURN OF FRANK CLAMART ? Henry C. Rowland ? Harper ($1.90). 'Frank Clamart's visiting card should read, "Virtuous Assas-sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives...
POLLY PREFERRED?A pretty face (on Genevieve Tobin) and Paris gowns (on the rest of Miss Tobin) carry a virtuous and unsuccessful chorine from the Automat to Fashion Row ? from Fashion Row to Fame (Hollywood variety...
POLLY PREFERRED?A pretty face (on Genevieve Tobin) and Paris gowns (on the rest of Miss Tobin) carry a virtuous and unsuccessful chorine from the Automat to Fashion Row?from Fashion Row to Fame (Hollywood variety...
...happy home till Mrs. Fair became a war-heroine. Then Mrs. Fair decided that woman's place was on the lecture platform and departed on a $30,000 tour of the country, leaving Husband to be consoled by a distressingly vivacious widow, Son to marry a poor but virtuous hello-girl, and Daughter to fall into the clutches of nicotine, complexion-clay and her mother's manager. But everything came out happily at last. The cast is pretty adequate, though not exciting-the direction and detail good...
...Good and virtuous students of that day fined professors whenever they cut a lecture. Professor Haskins concluded that what interested students of the middle ages interests the student of today; that although conditions may differ, collegiate problems are still the same; and finally that the entire system of today is the result of centuries of work...