Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen almost all the Zane Grey pictures it wants to see. None the less there is entertainment in "The Water Hole" and the Technicolor bits of the picture are quite good. Jack Holt and Nancy Carroll are the luminaries and manage to tie up the East with the West...
...cowboys and Indians in the Southwest of the 1880's. Far from being of purely juvenile interest it has an historical value all the more welcome because of the authentic perspective it furnishes of the lives of our western forefathers, and the vast movements of humanity from east to west following the Civil War. Those who cherish memories of the true West and are surfeited with the false and discordant atmosphere shed by cheap novels and moving pictures will find refreshment, instruction, and entertainment in Mr. Collins' attractively illustrated work. If such praise sound profuse, the reviewer merely wishes...
...made the acquaintance of cow-boys. Indians, and bandits, and at the age of nineteen served as a cow-boy himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life in those lusty days is a commendable one, and by carrying out his own precepts he has enriched our literature of the West...
...Chicago, which seemed to be Mrs. Willebrandt's base of operations, the subject grew exciting when she appeared in town and registered at the Blackstone Hotel. She would see no one, until after a two-hour conference with James William Good, Hooverizer of the West, and Walter Newton, Chairman of the G. O. P. Speaker's Bureau. Emerging she was asked point-blank what her auspices were...
...Rochester Alfred E. Smith arrived from the West, took charge of the Democratic convention. Several times he talked over long distance wires to Warm Springs, Georgia, where his good friend and presidential nominator Franklin Delano Roosevelt was mending his health. Roosevelt for Governor seemed necessary for Democratic success in New York, perhaps in the nation. But on advice of physicians Mr. Roosevelt had refused to run. Over the telephone the voice of the Happy Warrior pleaded again and again. Finally the Happy Warrior's great and good friend consented to run for Governor. New York Democracy was jubilant. Royal...