Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fighting Blade. Richard Barthelmess appears a trifle more romantic than ever in round helmet and shiny breastplate-a Roundhead Captain in the forces of Oliver Cromwell. Divesting himself of these friendly ferries, he enters the enemy stronghold at Staversham as a spy. Spying he is spied upon, detected, made prisoner. There follows a hideously tiresome torture scene-the only blemish of the production. Finally the lovely heroine files his fetters and he escapes via the water route beneath the castle walls...
...authority in its own field. It issued a list of some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...
...facing outside his native haunts. Why this should be so, aside from climatic reasons, is difficult to say; but it is a rule which seems to hold in almost every form of sport. Some of the most illuminating examples of the truth of this statement are to be round in Anglo-American golf competitions. Walter Travis won in England in 1930, and Harold Hilton duplicated his feat at least once in America, but except for these two, foreign invaders have very rarely triumphed over native sons. There have, of course, been others. Jimmy Wilde, for example, probably the world...
...Where in deauce shall we start?' said Mr. Withersquash when they got round the corner. 'We might suitably have a taxi to start off with...
Results matches in the second round follow: Levin defeated Massell by default; Pratt defeated Merian, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0; Bandler defeated Wakefield, 6-0, 7-9, 6-3; Barber defeated Hunt, 6-3, 6-3; cole defeated Colby, 6-2, 6-2; Perkins defeated Booth, 6-2, 6-3; Upjohn defeated Bloomberg, 6-0. 6-2; Glessner defeated Carpenter, 8-6, 6-3; Weisman defeated Wilds, 6-2. default; Bondt defeated Allen, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Shapiro defeated Schwartz, 6-0, 6-1; Stone defeated Davis, 7-5, 6-8, 6-4; Johnson defeated Lane...