Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, too, a comedian must have a profound understanding of human nature, he must understand the psychology of the human brain. I find that one of the most effective ways to get a good laugh is to produce a rapid change from one emotion to another, from tears to laughter for example...
...With a rapid pickup, a lean chassis, and no brakes, smooth-running Carr of Syracuse jeered at the shaky semaphores which Columbia propped in his path; supplied all the locomotion, his team needed...
...spite of all the better things we have said about "That Royle Girl," it really isn't bad entertainment. Mr. Griffith is doing stunts for his audience, and if the story is jerky, and the action too rapid at times, there is still the beautiful and clever Miss Dempster, to make up for other failings. As we have intimated above, she would be a great actress if she stopped trying to be cute...
Just how this experiment ? if it is a consciously formulated plan ? will work out, no one can quite tell; yet the fact remains that the rapid raising of Reserve rates has put a distinct crimp in the stock market, whose speculative favorites came in for a severe liquidation. The motor shares, recently so popular, have in particular slid off to new low prices on the movement, with the suggestion that the former lively speculation in them will not be resumed in the immediate future...
...following article points out that professional football is advancing in popularity at a rapid pace...