Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Window Panes. Nothing is so utterly glum as misery in Russia or so inscrutable. An intimate glimpse into a peasant household reveals a husband who slashes a great deal with his whip, a wife who suffers commensurately, a son stricken dumb. Comes an escaped convict with Love in his heart. He tarries awhile in this hovel of Muscovite anguish to bring light into the souls of the people, and by token of a dusted window, into the room, the main scene of sorrow. Apparently, this constitutes a symbol. It is in the same vein as the Servant in the House...
...avail. She cuts his face with a whip. In a twinkling he appears as no less a figure than the "Red Shadow," leader of native insurgents. Masked, the Flaming Youth makes successful love in the desert fashion. In the East when a man claps his hands twice, slaves rush out, carry the designated women off to be bathed and anointed, then served up to their lord and master. Herein, the high producer clapped his hands and 90-odd chorines went to the showers. There is a mystery and a romance about the East. A huge cast, gorgeous settings, some good...
When the Third International Conference met at the Kremlin to choose a new president, Dictator Stalin snapped his whip and Nikolai Bukharin whom Stalin had already placed in the vice presidency was elected President. Bukharin is hand in glove with Stalin's policy of retrenchment in world revolutionary activities, but last week he was obliged to coddle the delegates by a fiery speech promising support of Chinese and Javanese Communists, the only Communist factions now actively embattled in their respective countries...
...Squall. The best stage storm of the season disrupts the serene domesticity of a Spanish household. From under the black clouds, into a country home, scurries a gipsy girl, fleeing from her man with a whip. The ladies of the household take her under their protection-foolishly, because the gipsy has more sex appeal than all the rest of the family put together. Within one year (intermission) she seduces the manservant, the son and the master of the house. And she does these things in the big parlor hall that gives on every room in the house. The ladies...
...July 16, Editor Payne cracked his whip and the Mirror started galloping. A full-page wash drawing showed the bodies of the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills as they were found beneath the crabapple tree. The headline bleated : "HALL -MILLS MURDER MYSTERY BARED." The story insinuated that Widow Hall and her deficient brother "Willie" would be the storm centre of the new investigation...