Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the ferryboat West Point, rammed in the Hudson River by a car barge, 700 passengers were taken safely...
Modest to the point of bashfulness, Professor Gosset explained to last week's newsmen that his appendix exploit was merely a classroom demonstration of two maxims he tries to impress upon all his students...
...would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters, and the fact that its central situation is frankly appropriated from the great German film Variety. A good...
...Manhattan the club owners of the American and National Leagues held their annual meeting with Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in the chair. In many hours of the sort of conferential argument known as bag-punching they discussed a point...
...stories are written in better English. Yet in spite of his formless, floundering style, Author Dreiser has won recognition as one of the most important U. S. writers. He is so much in earnest such a painstaking student of his fellows, that his stories, weak at almost any given point, have a cumulative strength...