Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crime combine can twist itself into a successful talkie. But that is what happens. In the twistings the whole plot takes on a little original color and ends up quite apart from Hoyle. Miss Moore surprises with some not at all bad singing, then proves she can dance a bit, and tops the picture off with a couple of scenes of creditable acting. As a final touch she throws in a dash of clever satire of a chic Parisian light musical star...
...after reading James L. Knox's article "In Praise of Football Scouting" in the November Sportsman, I changed my ideas quite a bit. It seems that Knox is Harvard's chief scout and should therefore know whereof he speaks...
...interest in life and as live a brain as any of his three generations of descendants. With real finesse is the character drawn. The other members of the family who one meets as the play progresses all must yield in some point to its head. Don Evaristo is a bit crotchety, Dona Filomena is on bad terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella, the erring sister of the family, when Papa Juan would ask her to his hundredth birthday party. But the old man rises above them all, smoothes out the quarrels and before the play is half...
Sturdily Miss Ishbel MacDonald refused to speak or write for pay while her Prime Minister father was the guest of President Herbert Hoover (TIME, Oct. 14, 21). But safe back in England last week, the Scotch lassie put by a tidy bit for three articles sold to the New York Evening Post. Like Ishbel's eyes, the articles sparkled yet were thoughtful. They answered the question: "What does Ishbel MacDonald think about...
...stand for) certain conventions in the best of bloody melodramas. The locale is a little town in England, in the dusty shadows of the cathedral close. It is a good stage for a mystery, though one might accuse Mr. Reeve of overdoing the underground passage and hidden chapels a bit for his effect. The story moves swiftly enough, although it might have been better-handled...