Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense of storytelling. Instead of writing imaginative travel books based on fact, he creates romances with a background of his own experiences in which god-like heroes, heroines and villains move simply and struggle with the problems of life in the large. He paints his scenes with a delicate brush and his people with broad, crude strokes...
Maytime. The famous operetta, which is still a favorite after seven years, has been presented on the screen, minus the music and the swinging choruses. The effect is supremely silly. Sentiment is splashed around with a whitewash brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations...
...second practise brush of the day was that between the Freshman eight and the Combination crew. The first-year men easily outdistanced their competitors, crossing the mile and one-quarter distance three lengths ahead. This does not tell the whole story inasmuch as the Freshman eight continued to the two-mile mark whereas the Combination boat dropped out at the mile and one-quarter mark. The Freshman did not raise the stroke until the last few hundred yards. Macomber was rowing number six in place of Leavitt in the Combination eight. The latter was slightly...
...problem of passing judgment on a woman who shot the seducer whom the wife herself would have liked to shoot. It comes as a shock to her husband, with his hard and fast notions of right and wrong among women, that his wife is tarred with the same brush as the defendant, but he manages to get over it. The picture resorts to the favorite current system of wadding up a batch of stellar talent (Sylvia Breamer, Bessie Love, Myrtle Stedman, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Carr and Hobart Bosworth). Lew Cody plays the roue till murder seems highly desirable...
There are a dozen tales in the collection and the reader's hair slowly rises until absolutely perpendicular to the scalp. Those whose hair naturally bristles six of the stories it will brush and lie flat in the meekest fashion imaginable...