Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentences and underscores two or three times her more emphatic phrases. The grand themes are first her grief at the political eclipse and final death of Benjamin Disraeli, "dear Lord Beaconsfield;" and secondly her rage at William Ewart Gladstone whom she would certainly have called a Bolshevik had the word then been invented...
Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer of Napoleon and Bismarck, announced last week, as he sailed from Manhattan on the Majestic, that his next word-portrait will be of Abraham Lincoln. "I carry him in my pocket," said Herr Ludwig, showing a Lincoln penny. "He fascinates...
Mother Machree. William Fox has rediscovered that "Mother" is the sweetest word at the box office. A month ago he released Four Sons, maternal, Bavarian. This week, he released Mother Machree, an Irish valentine. It tells of Ellen (Belle Bennett), who hears in her little Ballymore cottage that her husband has been killed in a sea tornado. With Brian, her son, she starts for the U. S., meeting on the way Bozo (Victor McLaglen), a lanky giant, and his harpist brother. The giant loves Ellen, follows her. He joins a circus, and persuades her to be a sideshow freak also...
...artists have adopted consciously or unconsciously. It seems to be recognized that at the present day the independent picture does not lend itself, as it once did, to the expression of our more serious and fundamental ideas; in this respect it cannot rival the drama or the written word. At the same time it is felt that mere naturalism--the exact description of objects--may well be left to the photographer or the inferior painter who is entirely concerned with making things "like"--anyone can do it by studying the laws of perspective and by a little practice...
...hours of physical education is a sensible requirement; but athletes will certainly give as much time as this to exercise; and as for other students, the word "must" reverberates unpleasantly, and required physical drill shortly assumed a most repellent aspect...