Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Malick's Height Gives Him Position...
Powell, moreover, took six successful photographs, four of the corona, and two of the sky, in order to bring out the depth of color apparent at the height of the eclipse. Mr. Hewitt, on the other hand, apparently took only one. He used the same process as that adopted by the Princeton man, the Lumiere super-sensitized plate, but adapted it to eclipse photography after careful research work...
Maria Jeritza, famed soprano, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan, sang in Fedora. Opposite her played Tenor Gigli, one whose voice is like honey tapering from the underside of a spoon, but whose height is abbreviated. Now Jeritza, as all the world knows, is a queenly lady "tall as a tall church candle" (TIME, Jan. 5). Mr. Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli...
...while. To rely on publicity is perhaps noxious, but in this case as in a thousand others, the end will justify the means. Youth will always seek fame, even if it is a will-o-the-wisp; and to use youth's fantasy for its own improvement is the height of teaching genius...
...their mutilations of the English language. Music-hall audiences rippled and rocked when they heard, just before an act came on, the plaintive offstage whisper of the fat one (Weber) to the skinny one (Fields)-"Don't push me, Meyer!" When the pair were at the height of their popularity, 20 years ago. they disagreed, separated. Friends called this a "business suicide." This winter, they have returned to the two-a-day, are playing certain Western towns under the management of Keith's Theatres, Inc. But this winter the whisper is not quite so funny; there...