Word: wind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grey cavalry thundered through to join Jackson in the Valley, stands a fine brick building faced with ten cinctured columns. About are smaller structures, a laboratory, stable, power plant. Once it was an important U. S. weather observatory; but for 15 years it has stood empty in the mountain wind...
...yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal Walt Whitman...
...made vocally effective by Ruth Chatterton. The Shopworn Angel: A chorus girl and a soldier, without a happy ending. The Wolf of Wall Street: Artificial but exciting melodrama of human stock and bondage. The Case of Lena-Smith: An Austrian servant-girl does not wince nor cry aloud. The Wind proves that Lillian Gish is still the best picture actress...
...Chinook was named for a wind-the dry warm northwesterly wind that is said to moderate the climate and "lick up" the snow from cold mountain slopes...
Best current cinemas arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they made last fortnight. (A) The Wind-Storm of sand and emotions around Lillian Gish. My Man- Fanny Brice on the sound-device. The Shopworn Angel-A doughboy's love for a girl who loves dough. The Rescue- Scenic adventure from Conrad's novel. Alias Jimmy Valentine-Lionel Barrymore as a detective in the best talking picture to date. The Case of Lena Smith -Tragedy of a Viennese blonde, beautifully filmed. The Barker-Audible circus. (B) The Singing Fool, records everywhere; The Terror...