Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love with Love. Vincent Lawrence, author of this play, seems to have on the brain the prenuptial aspects of the triangle. Some weeks ago a piece under his signature was produced by George M. Cohan (Two Fellows and a Girl) in which a girl flipped a coin to decide which of her two " steadies " she would marry. In the present play she flirts wildly with two men and finally marries a third. The theme in both deals with the difficulties besetting the bewildered young lady when she finally decides to stop flirting and go in for love as a serious...
Anathemata are to him: "Pish Posh!" he labels in a Rage The writings of that Worthy Sage, That Man of Superhuman Brain, The Syndicated Doctor Crane, And loudly voices his Dislike For the Reverend Doctor H. van Dyke...
...phones on his head, of a student in training for a job as radio operator in the U. S. Navy led to a discovery which will vastly shorten the process of manufacturing experts in wireless telegraphy. While the code and its translation were coming through the ether, the brain cells of the sleeping man, in a state of plastic receptivity, were absorbing the meaning of the dots and dashes and forming new associations. On waking, he was able to repeat accurately everything he had received in sleep. Psychologists say that such results are feasible because of the automatic, repetitive nature...
...will discern immediately that Dempsey has taken a false step. In fact, his ingenuous enthusiasm for this vialled virility seems for the moment to have swept him off his feet. Not only has the fighter become involved in this strategic blunder, but his manager as well. Jack Kearns, whose brain held up Shelby and the nation for $100,000, has forgotten himself so far as to give away the secret of his success. He, too, admits that Nuxated Iron is vital to his champion's " phenomenal victories...
...Metropolitan Museum, charged with buying " the most fantastically faked fakes that ever the brain of faker faked," gives proof of good faith in the cordiality with which its president, Mr. Robert De Forest, disclaims infallibility and encourages investigation of specific objects of suspected authenticity...