Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With well-worn evidence Messrs. Owen Josephus Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special U. S. counsel, conducted the prosecution before Justice William Hitz. Only novelty: they managed to introduce the illuminating fact that Fall, in a parallel case, had received some $269,000 in Liberty bonds from Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair who in return received the Teapot Dome lease...
...well you look this morning. What a fine overcoat! If I had one like that I'd go to the theatre tonight! . . . Look at all these letters, they are mostly from women, if they could see me now they wouldn't fall in love with me, would they...
...writing the stories that became the basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just how to handle the Sherlockian pipe, as crooked and heavy...
...Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting in the ginmill. Ulric's beautiful figure and husky voice go over well, but the situations are trite and the denouement in a frozen canyon fails to be tragic because it is not inevitable. Best shot: Ulric's singing "The Right Kind...
...merely big but great is Aristide Briand, first Frenchman to bury the War, shaggy-headed, sleepy-eyed but profoundly sagacious builder of friendship and conciliation between France and Germany. As he faced the Chamber of Deputies, just reconvened last week after a three-month vacation, M. Briand knew well enough that his eleventh Cabinet was tottering...