Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest man on Devil's Island, exposing a ring of tattoo-marks around his neck, with the legend: "Cut on the dotted line...
Yale could not regard Maryland as easy after what happened last year (Maryland 6, Yale 0), but never did the Elis show so clearly what a one-man team they are this year. With a lead of 13, shifty little Albie Booth sat down to rest. Maryland promptly tied the score, was set to win when the whistle blew. Yale 13, Maryland...
...same manner as the condenser plate of a radio receiver. He stuck one of his fingers into an ear of one of his audience, modulated a high frequency current by speaking into a transmitter, let the modulated current pass through his body to his finger tip to the man's ear. The man "heard" Mr. Grace's words. The man felt as though he were thinking Mr. Grace's phrases. It seemed like thought transference. No hocus-pocus was it, however, but an understandable, verifiable, physical-physiological hookup...
...Owensboro, Ky., a woman telephoned the police in the night, said a man was peeping in her window, that she was holding him at bay with a pistol. Rushing to the house, police found a cow, munching her cud, looking in the window...
...rickety Buddhism and bric-a-brac Christianity." When Maupassant, mewed in his asylum, waited for death, "he became a mere machine, and perhaps the only pleasure he experienced was the hallucination of bands of black butterflies that seemed to sweep across his room." Oscar Wilde "was a born newspaper man." Critic Huneker was never content merely to criticize a man's works? he discussed the man himself, gossiped, told tales out of school...