Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. A picturesque, rapid narrative, superbly adapted for spectacular filming, especially as regards the Argentinian episodes, where Ibanez, with his flair for local color, is rather better than when attempting to describe high society in the Ouida vein. A well constructed novel, whose catchy title should lure a large public?not one-tenth-of-one-percent. of durability in its fabric, but very saleable goods for the Autumn trade...
...Have Money. Like the mystery plays and the bedroom plays, the business plays seem to have a perpetual field on the American stage. In the present instance the sudden fortune is acquired by promoting brains. It is all rather rapid; familiarly amusing; shrewdly seasoned to the public taste. Robert Ames and Vivian Tobin are thoroughly acceptable in the leading roles. The visitor may also take delight in recognizing in the cast Flora Finch, cinema comedienne with the most angular features that ever cracked a custard...
...this interesting experiment he must possess himself of the secret of a new explosive which, when properly applied, is empowered to rupture the Rock of Gibraltar. The heroine (Shirley Mason) constitutes herself chaperone to the only vial of the explosive in existence. Her temperamental charge puts her through a rapid array of situations, such as: rescued from a motorboat by airplane at 50 miles an hour; shelled out of the airplane and then out of a parachute; escaped through the torpedo tubes of a submerged submarine. It may be inferred that the picture is gorgeously impossible, rabidly exciting...
...Channel crossing. Detroit to Cleveland by air is only 100 miles, while the rail journey is long and roundabout and a, lake steamer takes all day. Moreover, these two cities are very closely linked in business and industry, while New York to Atlantic City is a most pleasant and rapid railway journey, which any one on pleasure bent might well prefer...
...July 9, 1921, won the Peugeot prize of 10,000 francs for flying a distance of 35 feet and rising more than three feet in a man-driven airplane. This was achieved in the " aviette," a combination of bicycle and biplane, which rose after a rapid run on the ground. Poulain's death will cut short interesting experiments with a glider equipped with a pedal-driven propeller...