Word: slides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arcs on the trapezes of love and sorrow, now plays a faintly comic role in a rather foolish U. S. soldier-boy cinema. A demure, unprepossessing pacifist, wearing a huge head of false hair, she falls in love with a boisterous buck private named John Smith. Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque. At the last, everybody begins to run around, faster and faster, taking spills and turning somersaults. Even Lya de Putti was panting at the finish, as were many members of the audience who found Buck Privates funny...
Down a well-greased slide, at Glasgow, lurched, last week, the portly Duchess of Bedford. A burly workman had tipped the mechanism of the slide, giving her a shove. At her had been hurled a bottle of champagne by Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, pious, charitable wife of the Prime Min- ister...
Beneath the end of the slide wavelets rippled and laughed. Into them plunged, stern first, the Duchess of Bedford, with all the emphasis of her 20,000 tons. She is the second "Duchess" ship to be built for Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., now famed for its "Empress'' ships. First of the new series was the Duchess of Atholl. Came to her recent launching Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl. Hers was the christening bottle. She tended and swung it with the gracious assurance of a stateswoman, for she is now Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education, a post...
...Navy, is no man of leisure. Last week, waiting on an island in Currituck for a Navy plane to fetch him and his dead ducks, Mr. Robinson grew impatient. Currituck was freezing. The Navy must be run. Up he got and helped his guide push, pole and slide their boat through Currituck ice to the mainland...
...private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...