Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like all good facts, statistical or otherwise, it may be bent to prove almost anything and one may find in it, as in the Bible, whatever one looks for. The bad boy from Baltimore, Mr. Mencken, will no doubt declare it proof incontrovertible of hopeless literary flabbiness, and the flag-waving Mr. Sherman will somehow find in it another splendid victory for "the American spirit". But who can imagine Messrs. Sherman and Mencken on any common ground...
...dangerous player. He manned himself for his task, halved the first hole, won the next. So the match seesawed. Mr. Baker hit the hardest; sometimes, indeed, the natural recoil of his flourish forced him to stagger back a step or two. Mr. Rockefeller was warier; he never waggled, but bent for a moment over his club in the attitude of one who offers prayer, then struck. As they approached the eighth hole, the wearer of the cotton gloves was one up. Mr. Baker's ball dropped ten feet from the pin; he putted; it serpentined from view-a five...
...make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...
...grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...
Improved Copper. Copper bars, seven-eighths of an inch thick, and six inches long, so soft that they can be bent double like a stick of molasses candy, but so strong that they can hardly be straightened with the strength of one's hands, were exhibited. Each is a single crystal of copper, produced by an improved process.-Dr. Wheeler P. Davey, General Electric...