Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heaviest and best I have ever played against. The tackles turned in an excellent performance. We succeeded in taking them out only one or two plays during the entire game. The center, Ticknor, also played a good game. His passes were well executed and on the defense he would break through, almost very time. The entire line showed up to advantage...
...well are of great abundance in the series that begins today. The heroic performances of Ruth and Alexander in the struggle of two years ago between the same clubs are remembered and the chances of duplication discussed. Will Comba and Pennock be able to play, and will Yankee slugging break through Cardinal pitching? Such are the questions that will animate barber shop debate, for the next few days and cause thousands of fans to storm the gates, ruin their hats and larynxes and regain their youth in a grand orgy of sport mania...
...might be possible for chemists to synthesize quinine to break up the Dutch-led international monopoly of natural quinine. An easier way was for the U. S. Government to bring the suit. The prosecutors could not subpoena the foreigners. So they confiscated great quantities of quinine stored at Manhattan. To get back the goods the monopolists last week, through their U. S. lawyers, promised to cease their practices in so far as the U. S. was concerned. So the suit was nolled and withdrawn "by consent...
...that neither of his two operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself falters...
...waiter at an inferior nightclub, who is daft over a revue-girl (Josephine Dunn). He writes a song, sings it to the revue-girl, is heard by one Marcus (Edward Martindel), a theatrical shogun. Shogun Marcus, impressed, wants Al to write more songs, gives Molly, the revue-girl, a break. Four years later Al & Molly are Broadway pets, but Al loses Molly, who becomes infatuated with John Perry (Reed Howes). There is a three-year-old child called Sonny Boy (David Lee), who escapes artificiality so completely that a hypersensitive cinemaddict feels like an intruder during the scenes between...