Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inappropriate. Proper picturization of the grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest man on Devil's Island, exposing a ring of tattoo-marks around his neck, with the legend: "Cut on the dotted line...
Dorothy Parker, funny vulgarienne. was awarded the 0. Henry Memorial first prize for her short story "Big Blonde," published in last February's Bookman. Letters and telegrams to the north-woods retreat of Wilson Follett advised him that his story "Oak" had been judged second best. When he did not reply, second prize was given to Sidney Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (They Knew What They Wanted) for his story, "The Homesick Ladies...
...registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols stop alongside telephoto tubes. Light shines through the exposed part of the drum film and modulates the tube current, which is transformed into the sound waves of Miss Shaughnessy's best accent. The manual operator listens, plugs in the call, does not even have to say "Thank...
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