Word: begining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week, while his lawyers scurried about in vain to get a stay of execution pending appeal, Jermyn got into his automobile, drove blithely off to Walton, N. Y. where he had racehorses running, returned in time to begin his sentence...
First important picture made in six years by Director Griffith, its old-fashioned technique is surprising at first, until you begin to feel it appropriate to the subject in hand. Often the transition from one crisis in Lincoln's career to another is so abrupt as to seem superficial. In part this is because of the limitations which program-time impose on the film's structure (it lasts only 100 minutes). The dialog by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet is less a factor in the picture's success than the masterly acting of Walter Huston in the title role. Sometimes...
This year Sister's troubles began before her Modern Day Pilgrimage to the Holy Land got under way. To begin with, the pilgrims were not so numerous as Mrs. McPherson had hoped. And crossing the Mediterranean her daughter Roberta fell from the deck of the vessel, injuring herself so severely that the crusade was held...
From another source came another conflicting story about Mrs. McPherson's condition. At Des Moines, Mrs. Peggy Myrtle King, Templar, said that the evangelist was suffering a nervous relapse because a lunatic had hurled a snake through her window. Los Angeles Templars were debating whether or not they should begin a three-day fast to restore Sister's sight, although the attending physician announced that she would probably be able to deliver the Sunday sermon...
...Lorenzo. Six Popes employed him. An ever-unfinished undertaking for a tomb of the first plagued him half his life. For four years he worked on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, for six on the Last Judgment on the adjoining wall. No project was too immense for him to begin, but many were too great to finish. From birth perverse and self-contained, he had a permanent disfigurement which toughened his misanthropy. Love for mankind he never developed, but love for his work never deserted him. At 70 he was finishing the Palazzo Farnese, altering fortifications, making a church...