Word: rapidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Action thenceforth is rapid, confusingly quick compared with the lagging up to that time. The director seemed as willing as the audience to call a halt. The cinema has been adapted from Zane Grey's piece identically named...
Asphyxiation: Rapid, because vertical position of submarine caused acid to spill from storage batteries and to come into contact with the salt water, generating deadly gas impossible to counteract with fresh air from hose...
...great actresses of the last generation are difficult to appraise in this one, a time of more rapid reputations and artificial fame. Theirs was a period when the glamour of the stage seemed a more tangible thing. Because the roles they played were generally those of people far more splendid than real ones, the impersonators, subtly identified with their parts, became themselves remote and dazzling creatures. They lived, one imagines now, in a labyrinth of complex and uncomfortable luxury. Their lovers were lords or poets and their love affairs were not casual encounters but tragedies as poignant and improbable...
Turkish progress under the kinetic impulsion of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, was so rapid, last week, as to dazzle if not perturb Occidentals...
...trace of informality in this letter from President Coolidge to Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin suggested the spirit in which the President's summer outing was being planned. White House familiars said that, whereas the President attended his Rapid City office five days per week last year, trips this year from Cedar Island Lodge to the office in the Superior, Wis., high school would be kept down to three or four per week...