Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defi to the world, but an expose of what Premier Mussolini believes to be the wreck of Lo-carno-this was suppressed, not by the Fascist censor but by the gentlemen of the U. S. press...
Mother (Belle Bennett). With Mothers' Day on the horizon, this moist film of a neglected mother was aptly released. Too much money inspires her son to dissipate his way into an elopement with a particularly degraded flapper, her husband into amours with a widow. A providential train wreck brings the prodigals, fortuitously unblemished, back home...
...London literary machine capable of producing $35,000 per annum, has fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds and Author Owen...
...sincere Christian workers and missionaries the sacking of their homes in Nanking which was most extensive last week, seemed only an essentially minor disaster in the wreck of their spiritual work. The typical Christian missionary places his loyalty to China second only to that for his homeland; and his concern for the welfare of the Chinese is apt to exceed the care he takes of his family or himself...
...hurt in a train wreck (TIME...