Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game begins with a kick from mid-field. After this the ball is played with either the hands or the feet: if it has been raised directly from the kick, it is a "fly ball" and may be played with the hands; but as soon as it strikes the ground it is played as in soccer. There is no tackling or interference...
Touching on somewhat the same ground as that tread by Philip Barry in "Paris Bound" the author of "Young Love" has produced a highly diverting comedy. With but four characters to interpret him, he has built a setting of very obvious contrast. Two young people engaged to be married are set off against a young married couple. And as the faith of the youngsters in the everlasting bliss and contentment of the marital state resolves itself into a gaping doubt, Mr. Raphaelson lightly expounds his thesis...
...indicted, tried, sentenced in the District of Columbia Supreme Court two years ago. His appeal to the Supreme Court was on the ground that the Senate's questions pried illegally into his private affairs, that he was already threatened with court action on the subject-matter of these questions, were not pertinent to the legislation...
Bird in Hand, named for the Gloucester inn in which it takes place, contains the slight story of a romance which is opposed by the girl's father on the rather unusual ground that he does not want her to marry above herself. It is, so far as plot goes, thin fare, but Mr. Drinkwater has thickened it with some highly diverting comedy so smoothly played that it does not seem extraneous. The entire cast has been brought from London, where the play has run a year, and is considerably more than adequate. Ivor Barnard and Herbert Lomas...
...Pincian Hill with cassock billowing behind him fled the holy one, now thoroughly alarmed. He was only a humble Benedictine monk, but so strongly did he resemble Pius XI that, unconvinced by his protests, one of the children reverently picked up and treasured the little breviary lying on the ground. In humble Roman homes it is now fully believed that the Pope's first step into the great world since his "liberation," was in the simple quality and disguise of a lowly monk and for the gentle purpose of dozing on a park bench...