Word: denouement
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...short story. His happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never Was Shown, about a proud but starving cinema hero-the virgin clay of emotion appears exclusively, great lumps of it. In general, Author McNeile's titles are better than...
...miscast-if you like them to stick to the originals. For those who have not read Mr. Galsworthy, and really are not just sure who he is, the picture may serve. Are Parents People? The week's cheers must be devoted to this discussion of divorce and its denouement. Treated with a light and whimsical varnish of direction, the story of how a schoolgirl reunited her parents stands gaily up as one of the best of the recent films. Adolph Menjou and Florence Vidor are the accomplished parents. But the pick of the character basket falls to Betty Bronson...
...blows the uncle, and a denouement seems certain; but by a little discreet juggling Mary consents to play the game for a few minutes and the uncle takes her for the new member of the family. He immediately takes the bridal suite for the two on the Bermudan, sailing for the blessed isle of the onion, lily and bottled goods that evening. Things grow more and more strained, not to say tense, but the play goes on till a general showdown occurs on the deck of the ship and Mary decides that doctors aren't so bad; while her aunt...
Another year of professional baseball reached its denouement. At the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Manager McGraw and his "Giants" made their supremacy of the National League a mathematical certainty by banging out a 5-to-1 victory over Philadelphia. At Shibe Park, Philadelphia, the Washington "Senators" fattened their percentage at the expense of Manager Connie Mack's once-famed "Athletics," and lifted the American League pennant beyond the reach of the New York "Yankees" (1923 world's champions). For the first time in four years, the World's Series was thus rendered other than an all-New York affair...
...misses a good meal. After the act has run long enough the husband explains that he has known her scarlet past all along, but has kept silence in order to learn the identity of the man who equipped her with it. Then he spits on his hands. The denouement might be illustrated by a diagram showing the stairs which the villain struck as he tumbled down them and achieved a broken neck at the bottom...