Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sparks that it struck off were only feeble glints of starlight. From a Montmartre dive in girlhood to stage triumphs, Actress Aurelie Bourgevin (Miss Keane) runs the gamut of 100 emotions, 60 years, 14 costumes, several husbands. Harking back to Romance, she is allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...
There has also been a rapid development by manufacturers of the methods employed in spinning and weaving artificial silk fibre, and consequently in the appearance and wearing qualities of artificial silk fabrics. Formerly, fibre silk was used mainly for hosiery, which absorbed half this country's annual output. So widely has the demand for fibre silk spread, that today hosiery makers use only about one-fifth of the U. S.-made fibre silk...
...rather hard to keep up an appearance of dignity while swinging on the back end of a hook and ladder, but who could have guessed the identity of such a daring passenger, unless the Dawes pipe had been noticed? Or take the police patrol; here surely is safe and rapid transit, as long as Mr. Dawes took care not to look out of the windows, for even Washington would have been startled to see the Vice-President peering anxiously through the bars of a Black Maria...
With Smith being watched closely by the visitors' defence, it was Captain Samborski and Leekley who shared the scoring honors. They tallied ten and nine points respectively. Smith broke away near the end of the contest to drop the ball through the hoop twice in rapid succession. Bay lock, diminutive forward who starred for the Connecticut five, scored seven points, as did his teammate Makofski, who netted the ball three times from the middle of the floor in the last period...
...Federal Trade Commission, will probably proceed quietly enough to certain business conclusions. But Mr. Howell's proposal has a much more political asspect; for it means hearings by a committee of the Senate, researches into the careers of two men, said to have had the most rapid rise in railroad management since W. A. Harriman, and charges of "Wall Street" machinations...