Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generations to preserve the outward respectability of its home, only to have it flooded by the onrush of the water which destroyed towns and valleys and hills at the birth of the great Croton water system above New York City. It is the romance of this great engineering feat that led Mr. Hughes to make it the focal point of his novel. Flooded towns, broken walls, rushing waters! What a movie...
Before advertisers can adopt this innovation, however, they must give pause for one consideration. What about city traffic. The advertisers would have to arrange some means for the safe landing of their sailing agents, because this very first exponent of the new art has, for his feat, been summoned to court on the charge of disorderly conduct...
Hitherto it has been impossible, it is said, to make successful gramaphone records of organ music, but the other day in a Chicago laboratory the feat was accomplished, by means of a device invented by Orlando R. Marsh. Pietro A. Yon played his organ composition Jesu Bambino for the records, and the reproduction is described as excellent. Mr. Yon is the organist of a Jesuit church in New York. This accomplishment seems to open a new field for the phonograph...
...field of his Jeremiad is broad. It is something of a technical feat that Mr. Train has managed to juggle three generations, three different plots, and any number of different social criticisms simultaneously...
Percy Hammond: "... a sentimental tribute . . . and a feat in acting...