Word: froth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...15th of June in 1904 was a blue and shining day. There were a few white patches of froth against the china sky and a warm wind loitered in the air, as gay as a song. The people who boarded the General Slocum that morning ? mostly women who were bringing their small children on the annual outing of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church Sunday School ? felt the presence of this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion...
Actor Leslie Howard, slim Englishman who is more than likely to be found in the creations of such froth blowers of the drama as P. G. Wodehouse and Frederick Lonsdale. For Messrs. Galsworthy and Ames he has turned murderer, and he goes through parts of the play, his normally immaculate countenance grimy with sweat and an uncut beard...
...Carews are a mad tribe. There is pirate blood in their veins, repeating itself with fine atavism. Hate later turns to vicious admiration when Elsa sees Bayliss theatrically sitting a new pony, making it rear, yanking it up until there is scarleted froth on its bit irons. He goes to college, to war, to the devil; returns, as he says of one of his girls- healthy, clean, pretty. And his tribe dominates the landscape, roistering, riding hard. They have always succeeded, always dominated, always failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where...
Below the bubbles of diplomatic froth is going forward a work that represents real progress in international co-operation. The Conventions on the Traffic in Opium, on the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, on the International Regime of Railways, and on the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms have been signed or ratified by a majority of the countries of the world. It is safe to say that all the heralded accomplishment of the Hague Conference did not compare with the sum of these benefits...
Ritzy (Betty Bronson). Elinor Glyn, with whom the public mind associates The Philosophy of Love and the theory of IT,† here takes hold of an unusually refreshing bit of froth, only to flatten it with her usual pomposity. The heroine, a little Miss Main Street, is infatuated with the-idea of marrying a duke. Only after she has been taught the error of her snobbish ways and given an opportunity to register truly philosophic passion under half-closed eyelids, does she discover that her fiancé, Mr. Smith, is in reality the Duke of Westborough. Thereupon, morality...