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...ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted digging sites with field glasses. Having discovered a fossil, the diggers used whisk brooms and needles to disengage the item from its matrix. Dr. Andrews was usually chased away from a find. Impetuous, he was apt to use a pickaxe...
...steerers" waited to nab visitors and whisk them off to certain exhibits. But manufacturers went further than ever before to rivet attention on their booths. Worthy of a Roxy was the Chrysler exhibit: 35 salesmen and seven girls dressed in creamy flannels; rug of the same color and all the cars shaded to match; a huge merry-go-round said to have cost $20.000 displaying Chrysler parts and a chassis, presided over by a Sousa-like gentleman with a wand...
...perambulated babies, a sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park Casino, force her to aid their scheme for robbing the till of an unemployment benefit. Her young man (Wallace Ford) finds out about the crookery in time to catch the criminals by chasing them through the park in a high-powered...
...loss to provide transitions: one moment he commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride about, with one foot in Tibet and another in Hong Kong, pointing out the route. Again, when time presses, he produces a most convincing magic carpet to whisk his party home to Hollywood on the tick of the eightieth minute. Yet these tricks of photography and sound-recording seem not at all out of place with such a spellbinder at hand. Mr. Fairbanks does very well indeed with his eighty minutes and ours...
...dust, chalk, clay, bad weather make teaching hard on clothes. (Use a whisk-broom, towel, shoebrush...