An early example is in Maurice Tourneur's The Pride of the Clan ( 1917 ), in which there is a series of shots of waves beating on a rocky shore which are shown when the locale of the story, which is about the harsh lives of fisher folk, is being introduced.

After the successful Russian Revolution ( 1917 ), the quality of spy fiction declined, because the Bolshevik enemy had won the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ); thus, the inter-war spy story usually concerns combating the Red Menace, which was then perceived as another " clash of civilizations ".

* Maeve Brennan ( 1917 – 1993 ), Irish short story writer and journalist

In 1917 a new two story brick school was built, and later torn down to make room for the O ' Henry School.

Wild and Woolly is a 1917 silent film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy.

* Abel Sánchez ( 1917 ) — a novel that uses the story of Cain and Abel to explore envy.

The film's structure closely follows the 1917 story A Report To An Academy, by the author Franz Kafka, in which an ape addresses a scientific audience, explaining the difficulties he encountered while becoming a man.

In The Tomb, a 1917 short story by H. P.

The story is set in 1917, before and during American involvement in World War I, in the central California coastal towns of Monterey and Salinas.

However, this story is probably true in reference to the 1917 season, when Cicotte won 28 games before being benched.

Ring Lardner has one of his characters attend a performance of Carmen starring Farrar in the short story ' Carmen ' ( Gullible's Travels, 1917 ).

It was based on Maurice Leblanc's novel L ' île aux trente cercueils, directed by Marcel Cravenne and stars Claude Jade as Véronique d ' Hergemont, a female protagonist, who is on the run and on searching for her father and her son, involved in horrible adventures on a terrific island: The story proceeds in 1917.

Miriam Waddington ( née Dworkin, 23 December 1917 – 3 March 2004 ) was a Canadian poet, short story writer and translator.

Poliakoff explores the story of John, his relationship with his family, John's brother, Prince George, the political events going on at the time ( like the fall of the House of Romanov in 1917 ) and the love and devotion shown to him by his nanny, Charlotte Bill ( known as Lalla ), played by Gina McKee.

Tolkien began writing the story that would become " The Fall of Gondolin " in 1917 in an army barracks on the back of a sheet of military marching music.

In 1917 this building was converted for use as a bank, removing the upper story, and applying a neoclassical front on the Superior St facade.

In 1916, he published a play based on the story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer which premiered in 1917 but Feuchtwanter withdrew it a couple years later as he was dissatisfied with it.

His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories ( eight in some editions ) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the one-off title story ( September 1917 ), also called A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes under Reminiscences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Category: 1917 short story collections

His first Hindi story Saut was published in the magazine Saraswati in December 1915, and his first short story collection Sapta Saroj was published in June 1917.

* J. F. Powers ( 1917 – 1999 ), American short story and novel writer

In 1917, an administration building was built on the block east of the temple, to be followed in 1972 by the twenty-eight story LDS Church Office Building, which was, for many years, the tallest building in the state of Utah.

* Humdrum Brown ( 1917 )

In these apparitions, the Virgin Mary reportedly called herself The Lady of the Rosary and in one of the final Fátima appearances on October 13, 1917 had a Brown Scapular in one hand and a Rosary in the other.

* Edward L. Brown, 1917 – 1918

" Much of that started with Carter Brown who came to Tryon from Michigan in 1917 and opened the Pine Crest Inn, a place where moneyed northerners could enjoy riding horses or play golf during the winter months.

* Brown Amber ( 1917 )

Later interned in Switzerland, Brown was repatriated in September 1917.

* George Brown ( missionary ) ( 1835 – 1917 ), English missionary to Fiji, Samoa

* Harold Brown ( athlete ) ( born 1917 )

New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1917..

At the outset of America ’ s involvement in World War I in 1917, the Carnegie Endowment trustees unanimously declared that “ the most effective means of promoting durable international peace is to prosecute the war against the Imperial Government of Germany to final victory for democracy .” In December 1918, Carnegie Endowment Secretary James Brown Scott and four other Endowment personnel, including James T. Shotwell, sailed with President Woodrow Wilson on the USS George Washington to join the peace talks in France.

* Forrest William Brown 1915 to 1917.

Richard F. Outcault's Buster Brown ( 1917 )

* Brown, James T., ed., Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi, New York: 1917.

Brown was engaged in newspaper work in Blanchester in 1917 and was publisher of several country newspapers.

By 1917, Brown had achieved the rank of major in the Canadian military.

Harry W. Brown VC ( 10 May 1898 – 17 August 1917 ) was a Canadian First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Brown was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 16 August 1917, during the Battle of Hill 70 against the Germans, when Brown and another soldier ran the gauntlet with an " important message ".

* Harry W. Brown ( 1898 – 1917 ), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross

* Harry Brown ( writer ) ( 1917 – 1986 ), American screenwriter and novelist

Pamela Mary Brown ( 8 July 1917 – 19 September 1975 ) was an English stage and film actress.

* Brown, James T., ed., Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi, New York: 1917.

When this failed P & G filed suit against Berlin Mills, the litigation being known as " Procter and Gamble vs. the Brown Company " ( Berlin Mills Co. v. Procter & Gamble Co., 254 U. S. 156 ( 1920 )), since in 1917 the Berlin Mills Co. became the Brown Company.