Word: webs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroine's bed, using real antiques for historical settings- he was busy fictionizing himself. When he died in Manhattan last week, debilitated by a severe attack of pneumonia in November, his last words were: "Doctor, I am fighting for my life." So well had Producer Belasco warped the web of legend about himself that his age could only be approximated at 77. The Belasco legend begins with his father. Humphrey Abraham Belasco, a descendant of Portuguese Jews who fled their native land because of religious persecution. Abraham Belasco emigrated in 1852 from England to San Francisco. The records...
...keeps the show well in hand. The center problem for solution is one of proving innocence. The most naive tyro might guess that the hands of Laureen, lovely revue star and suspect, are unstained by crime but it takes a masterly piece of detecting to clear her of the web of indicting circumstance...
...tangled web of clews uncovered in the investigation of the strangle murder of beautiful Vivian Gordon, three things stood out in sharp relief against the murky background of the dead girl's past: Dope. Stock racketeering. Vice. "If these lines, taken from New York daily newspapers,* no doubt make sensational and, for its purpose, effective reading matter, one's admiration for the effectiveness vanishes when one thinks of a child reading them...
...undramatic fashion. If this and other accounts are slightly deficient in humor, they are nevertheless written without zeal. Perhaps Professor Palmer wholly appreciates the fate of those undergraduates of 30 years ago who year in, year out would listen to an empiricist like James tear down the frail web of idealism wrought by Royce or Palmer himself, only to witness the process reversed when they returned to the idealists...
...staggering figure will more than puzzle you when you compare it with the liabilities of about $4,000,000. Amazing, but true. If you desire certified copies of auditors' reports, I have them. You may peruse them and weep. Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...