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First seen in the silence of a winter alone in northern Norway, this old man begins, with the spring, to drift. The following summer he spends on a farm which, thanks to tourists, is swiftly disintegrating. He is not fond of the tourists...
...eaten crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. He continued to prefer this sort of food to a civilized diet, once devoured 89 prickly pears at a sitting. But he became gradually civilized as he learned to speak and understand English. He showed himself polite, obedient, fond of children, a devoted nurse. In the fields he was a prodigious worker, and Farmer Smith eventually came to regard him as his best servant. Lucas told Smith some of his experiences among the baboons, explained the big scar on his head as the mark of a kick delivered...
...really fond of lice. Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth-a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner...
Earnestly directed by Charles Vidor, this picture cinematizes Howard Spring's best-selling English novel about a best-selling English novelist, who, having sired an easily spoiled son, does everything he can to spoil him. Brian Aherne is the excessively fond father. Louis Hayward (with a popeyed, bigmouthed, knowing leer) plays the wayward son who, after failing to seduce his future stepmother (Madeleine Carroll), succeeds in seducing the daughter (Laraine Day) of his father's best friend (Henry Hull). In the book the son dies by hanging, in the picture he dies a hero in World...
...Mickey's coetanes are equally fond of him. It is no secret that between Master Rooney and Master Jackie Cooper (another virtuoso of swing) no love is lost. When Dead End Kids Huntz Hall and Gabriel Dell got to Hollywood, both offered to fight Mickey immediately...