Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attracted honestly; want to marry. The son, a neurotic, effeminate youth, bursts into helpless hysteria. It is this last part that Mr. Coward plays; nervously, overpoweringly. Several other characters are English players from the London company. Particularly is the mother's part effective as played by Lillian Braithwaite. And, lest this superlative and swift synopsis should suggest tragedy, be it said that The Vortex is a comedy, one of the sharpest, funniest comedies that you are likely to witness through the winter...
...submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable for lowering them all. Lest this cable break or tangle, an electric switch in the "bell" would disengage its prodigiously weighty lower shell, allowing the upper half and its occupants to bob upwards in safety. Three electrically driven propellers would maintain the "bell's" vertical suspension in this emergency...
...roams about with an ivory ball on a silk thread, by means of which he assures the gullible that he can divine buried fortunes in oil. He is known as a "doodlebug" and laughed at. Inventor Perry's reluctance to have his Indicator given publicity arose from fear lest he be thought one of these...
...simpler English means rigging the world market for coffee, of which Brazil is the chief producing nation. Every now and again, high prices thus established would cur tail consumption and encourage large production, and a large surplus would result which would have to be held off the market lest its sale smash the artificially high prices...
...reelection. It was a get-together meeting of Senator Butler's followers and those of the late Senator Lodge-hitherto hostile. Mr. Coolidge circulated through the crowd shaking hands, and climbed a 40-ft. wooden observation tower, issuing a warning for not too many people to follow him lest it collapse. ¶ On returning to White Court, Mr. Coolidge found Secretary of State Kellogg and Assistant Secretary Grew waiting for him on the piazza, where they had been sitting for an hour and a quarter. At once, all three fell to a two and a half hour conference...