Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard hockey team reduced in strength by illness will face a relatively unknown Crescent Athletic Club secret of Brooklyn, New York on the New Boston Garden ice at 8.15 tonight. Neither O. P. Jackson '29 or H. H. Newell '29, who have thus far divided the goal guarding duties, will be on hand and the responsibility will be shifted to W. L. Elkins '29 who has not appeared since the opening games of this season...
President Coolidge sat very still. He was looking at the face of an elderly English gentleman with large, bushy eyebrows. The eyes beneath these eyebrows looked intently back at Mr. Coolidge. After many minutes of motionless sitting, the President gave place to Mrs. Coolidge. She in turn sat very still, looked at the eyebrows, was looked at by the eyes. Eventually the results of these sittings, these lockings, will be portraits of President and Mrs. Coolidge, exhibited in the new building of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Manhattan. The owner of the eyebrows was Frank O. Salisbury, "painter...
Today the round face of the "German Lloyd George" is not ruddy with noontime beer and midnight champagne, but pale. He may eat only sparingly of dietetic food prepared by a special cook; and every evening he is bundled off to early bed by an efficient, uncompromising trained nurse. Recently it has even been noticed that Dr. Stresemann's personal physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute...
...change to which newspaperdom had been looking forward with curiosity and not without anxiety, for weeks. Some said that with Swope gone the World would feel like a face with all its teeth pulled. A light would be extinguished that nobody else could kindle. There was only one Swope...
...pictures that are meant to be frightening. They laugh. Their laughter, of course, is not an expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about...