Word: shields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beautiful City. Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish are a remarkably popular couple, and this picture will probably be ap- proved. Mr. Barthelmess plays a poor flower vender in Manhattan- which is the beautiful city. He goes to jail to shield his larcenous brother. Miss Gish is an Irish girl. You can fit in the rest of the pieces yourself...
...truth, Harvard has thoroughly domesticated me. Should I ever have the slightest desire to entangle myself in the, ties of matrimony, the terrors of housekeeping will not bother me. I shall order a few rubberneck lamps, a six-by-three Harvard pennant, a Harvard shield, several more or less ornate rugs, a framed copy of Kipling's 'If," a desk pad, and other absolutely requisite articles of decoration obtainable at the "Coop," all surrounded with the enticing lure of a tenpercent rebate, and my difficulties will be solved. Such are the advantages of living in this modern...
...excitement. On a lonely lighthouse lives a not very young woman and her reluctant ward. The latter longs for the land and love. The latter she has learned from a fisherman along the coast, learned more completely than she expected as we learn promptly in the first act. To shield her fisherman she accuses a Government engineer and the latter gets a bullet in the arm from the enraged keeper...
When Don Quixote tilted with the windmill, he did his best to focus his crumbling and erratic faculties on the proper maneuvering of his rusty shield, the inclination of his little lance, while his gigantic opponent, being without a brain, threshed its huge flails stupidly, and glared with idiotic rancor upon the fustian battler. Harry Greb, middle-weight pugilistic champion of the world, is called the "Pittsburgh Windmill." Like the onetime opponent of Quixote, he swings his arms about and around, jerks them up from below, slams them down from above. But, unlike that mindless creature, he employs...
Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President of the U. S., sent a present to the Vice President of the U. S. It was a wind shield or, rather, spark shield for a pipe. Mr. Sanders wrote: "Use of this will also prove that the pipe is really not upside down...