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Word: bents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Borrowing a friend's automobile, he bucks traffic at Philadelphia's busiest corner. Result: one broken arm for a traffic officer, one damaged trolley car, one bent automobile, one gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Myrtie is an addition to the sob drama. Author Goodhue seeks to arouse your pity for a bad girl, bent on going wrong for the sake of the silk stockings she'll get. Then she meets a priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Twenty-five per cent of the once perfect cigarettes in the ordinary container are apt to end up flattened, bent, broken, and in a generally disreputable condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Each Cigarette stays perfect in this package until you smoke it | 2/16/1924 | See Source »

University 40 Yard Dash.--R. G. Allen '26, C. D. Bent '24, R. L. Brooks '26, J. H. Broome '26, L. E. Bunker '25, W. R. Chase '26, L. M. Harris '24, R. D. Howard '24, T. R. Hull '25, J. E. Merrill '24, D. J. Quirk '26, L. L. Robb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL ENTERS 160 FOR TRIANGULAR TRACK MEET | 2/9/1924 | See Source »

Broad Jump.--C. D. Bent '24, J. M. Bruce '25, T. R. Hull '25, R. L. Hyatt '24, David Neiman '24, D. J. Quirk '26, L. L. Robb '25, G. Rountree '25, M. R. Smith '24, Donald Spencer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL ENTERS 160 FOR TRIANGULAR TRACK MEET | 2/9/1924 | See Source »

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