Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Praise from the arch-Democratic New York World: "Washington is a centre of news . . . because a quick-witted and aggressive executive is plainly...
...Yankee Division Club": "It is absurd for the Marines to say we are taking any of the glory from them. . . . We were just as regular as they, and more so. . . . It is rather late in the game now to criticise. . . . They are the greatest bunch of advertisers in the world...
...Prison congestion worried State as well as U. S. executives. The New York World made a survey of the 22 largest prisons in the U. S. outside New York, received reports that 15 of them were "dangerously overcrowded." The percentage of population over capacity in important local prisons was: Indiana State Prison, 79%; Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, 77%; Nebraska State Penitentiary, 61%; Missouri State Prison, 42%; Rhode Island State Penitentiary, 31%; Kentucky State Prison, 31%; Maryland State Prison...
...Cock-Eyed World (Fox). Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson wrote this sequel to What Price Glory. Like most sequels written to order and for the trade, it retains the flavor but not the vitality of the first piece. Still in the Marines, Sergeant Quirt and Top-Sergeant Flagg get their women mixed up again in Russia, Brooklyn, Coney Island, the tropics. Their dialog, consisting mostly of aggressive variations of the phrases "Says You" and "Says me," is amazingly rough for cinema, outshocks What Price Glory in places. One of the men gets wounded, the other leads his troops to glory...
...With Songs (Warner). The sob that rose in Al Jolson's throat as he sang beside the bedside of Davy Lee in other pictures has grown louder, deeper. Now that sob, heard round the world, constitutes his whole repertory. In Say It With Songs he sings in jail, torn from his young wife, his little son, caroling to fellow-prisoners about the birds, the springtime. He has accidentally killed a fellow who was making advances to his wife. As soon as he is free a truck hurts Davy Lee and the wandering story that is a framework...