Word: curl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Devil Within is one of those melodramas where the individual auditor is expected to curl up like a piece of burnt leather and crumble away with excitement. On the opening evening, professional observers refused to do this, owing to their long stern schooling in the mystery melodrama. The hide of an accomplished critic will not curl. Ordinary observers were reported to have curled slightly. In the last act, some of them even crumbled...
...lives by headlines. If newspapers were abolished, he would curl up and die. I know he will read this with delight and paste it away in his scrapbook. That's why I am writing...
Just what kind of a sense of humor is Mr. Frank advocating? Will that which he is advertising laugh heartily at a burlesque show, or will it curl up in agonies of mirth over one of those long articles in "Pauch"? The man who laughs at the misfortunes of others does not see much humor in his own mishaps, and a man who laughs at puns, and so-called "happy conceits" unfortunately laughs neither at his own nor other people's mishaps. If it is the truly desirable sense of humor, which Mr. Frank is advocating, it is one which...
...seem sacred, but the majority of students are no reason why the squad should need or deserve continual demonstrations of their approval. The honor men do not expect the gratitude of their fellows; the debaters need no mass meeting to inspite their efforts the track men do not curl up and quit if the Stadium is not filled with an enthusiastic throng. The best interests of the University are not necessarily served by a winning football team nor the best spirit exhibited by support of one Harvard's claim to greatness does not rest upon the same grounds for fame...
SWEENEY TODD?A mid-19th Century barber makes meat-pies of his enemies, thus moving us to mirth where he was wont to curl the hair of our grandfathers...