Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chess matches last so long that they acquire an individual character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident...
Gentle gained an average of eight yards every time he took the ball?172 yards in all. He scored Penn's first touchdown, made extra points after its first and second, did most of the punting against a Columbia team outclassed by the Gentlemen. 20?0.
DISRAELI?George Arliss builds an empire out of half a dozen mannerisms.
The Russians may not be essentially a jolly race, but somewhere about their bearded persons lurks a kind of laughing madness. If you thought them gloomy, morbid, humorless, you should have read Chekhov or Gogol's Dead Souls. Rather than go to the library for an old book, read...
Humor and passion do not go together. The revolutionary passion in Russia, cooling, is beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense...