Word: catching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beatrice Lillie (This Year of Grace), the lush, salivary speech of Constance Collier (the countess in Serena Blandish), the Jewish idiom of Fannie Brice (Fioretta), the long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt to imitate a man, to catch the elusive implications of silent Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers). There are also two female mimics: Dorothy Sands and Paula Trueman. The latter sings a Mid-Victorian love lyric while stripping herself of illusion's oldtime harness−bustle, gussets, padded bosom. Congratulations pokes a rather feeble finger at country...
There are two ways of approaching a weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...
...Undiscouraged, however, he continued with his plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch up with the Lindenthal vision, patient Mr. Lindenthal put a definite location (West 57th , Street) to his bridge, drew plans, estimated expenditures. But the City Fathers had other ideas, and when at last a Hudson River bridge was actually begun, it was the now-building structure from 178th Street...
...attitude of some of these is that dirty linen should not be washed in public. To this a sufficient answer is that it is better to be washed in public than not at all. They forget that once an incorrect story gets in print, subsequent denials will never catch up with the lie. They also fail to remember that news cannot be suppressed, that it is impossible to silence all the sources of information. Therefore, if an accurate and official statement is not made of all current events with news value, then it follows that a different kind of story...
Recess. Last week the Supreme Court recessed for a fortnight to catch up on its calendar, preparatory to adjournment early in June. During this term (from October) four notable cases have been decided by the court: 1) Great Lakes water diversion; 2) Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contempt of the Senate; 3) New York's 5? Fare; 4) Canadian immigration. Three notable cases pending are: 1) Oilman Sinclair's contempt of court (jury shadowing); 2) St. Louis & O'Fallon railway valuation; 3) presidential pocket vetoes...