Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles Chaplin are shown. Bare arms and bare legs at a revue move like machinery. A bit of Beethoven. A bar and an arm tightening about a waist. A swirl of skyrockets. A sudden...
...LIFE-Francis Brett Young-Knopf ($2.50). Versatile author of psychic Cold Harbour, Conradian Sea Horses, two volume saga Love Is Enough, Dr. (medical) Young now combines a poetic setting in Shropshire with the vivid glitter of Egypt. Ruth Morgan leaves her English countryside to marry an Egyptologist, whose heart, but for an April with her in Shropshire, is buried with tattooed mummies in the tombs of Thebes. Bezuidenhout's work is also in Thebes, but his anthropological research is for the sake of his profession as doctor to the living, and not in adoration of dead antiquity...
...Orleans with 300-pound Mayor Arthur O'Keefe. They were watching white-robed Negroes lead mules through the streets. The mules were attached to creaking floats filled with masked and strangely costumed debutantes, bankers, brokers and cotton kings. Behind the masks were eyes that had an unmistakable champagne glitter, for New Orleans was celebrating the pre-Lenten festival that seven roistering French students began a century...
This brief plot is motivated, behind its glitter of extravagant romance, by true and human emotions. Lionel Barrymore, onetime stage actor, is able to indicate the burly pathos of the hunchback who loves his brother as much as he does his wife but can forgive neither of them for their sin. Mary Philbin, garbed in tight and tenuous garments, is almost equally competent to express her perplexity in the choice between loyalty and passion. The younger brother to the hunchback is a handsome cinemactor of Valentinoesque appearance; his name is Don Alvarado...
...lines across the facsimile, that, until inspected from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre of oil paints or the glitter of watercolors they do not reproduce roughnesses of brushwork. But such roughnesses leave tiny shadows against each other; for the eye, this is the only evidence of their presence. These tiny shadows are duplicated in Belvedere facsimiles...