Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fresh from the printers it came to your humble correspondent and he read it with the avidity of a tabloid fan. For he thought that he might catch some faint echo of the missionary work done by the Harvard faculty among those who live beyond the Sahara. He was mistaken...
...title of the operetta has little or nothing to do with the show. Faint heart ne're won fair lady, says the heroine. And the hero shows her just how little faint hearted the son of a French general can be. The show is not going to sell on the merits of its love story, but on the strength of its supply of gaud and tinsel. It is one more example of American efficiency. The French and the Spanish have failed miserably and the Spanish have failed miserably to exhaust the possibilities of Morroco. It remained for the American producers...
...their own cycle of changes and seem to indicate the existence of seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time on Mars' earthward hemisphere. The planet's ice cap was almost all melted. The stained areas showed the faint regular lines which some observers have called "canals." Their irregular spread, coupled with measurements of their heat, suggest that the stains are seasonal vegetation...
...easily dismissed. Mr. Mencken may ignore it, laugh it off, or, if he chooses, attempt to prove its falsity. In a treacherous mood he may even admit its truth. But the second attack will linger maliciously in the memory of the public for it gives rise to a faint distrust in Mr. Mencken's evil genius...
WALLS OF GLASS-Larry Barretto-Little, Brown ($2). Sophy La Roque, whose voice is "magical and full, a faint huskiness about it like the undertones of pigeons at nightfall," cuts adrift from her aristocratic Southern traditions to marry a young doctor of the North. An overturned carriage, and she faces poverty with an infant son. Driven to the wall, she permits Martin Greer, hard turfman, to install her as mistress in his mansion. Retaining her dignity and authority before Sportsman Greer and the world of Valesboro, she centres her otherwise thwarted hopes upon her son, plays a lone hand with...