Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most plays of its type. It is satirical, sentimental, witty. It set, in its season, a new fashion in drawing-room drama. It is as effective as a talking picture as it was on the legitimate stage. Although the manuscript has been followed so closely that if you look sharp you can catch in the picture the momentary pauses that marked the play's division into acts, it is not a photograph of a play. It is a reproduction in which dramatic values have been replaced by cinematic values and which is skillfully acted by film players trained...
...Commissioner Voorhis' eyes are a little dim, his ears a little deaf, his walk a little shaky, but otherwise he is well-preserved. Strong of will, sharp of speech, he still lives in Greenwich Village, takes a ham sandwich to work with him for luncheon. He advises young men to stay out of politics, is "for the women-strong," opposes Prohibition, would like to see New York City made a separate state...
...Charles Scribner Jr., wife of the Manhattan publisher, summering in Massachusetts, riding her Irish hunter, saw a farm horse, stung by a bee, go dashing away dragging a hay rake. Mrs. Scribner gave chase, followed the runaway up hill and down dale, around curves so sharp that one of them sent the hay rake zooming off by itself. Agile, she caught and subdued the horse...
...happen to have been born in Holland, as were my forebears for some 300 years and "Kijkuit" means "Lookout" if you use it as a noun. The sharp warning: "Look out!" in Dutch would be: "Kijk uit!" At Dutch railroad crossings we see the signs "Uitkujken!" "Kijk" is the Dutch for look. "Kijkers" is also the Dutch pet name for eyes, so that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope...
...Sharp for the past several months has been antagonism between two Bishops who at last week's convocation inevitably met. One of these is the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, "liberal" Bishop of Birmingham, the other is the Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, Bishop of St. Albans, stormy conservative. Said Bishop Furse when he saw Bishop Barnes: ". . . He claims liberty for himself and others in freedom of belief and refuses to allow that freedom of belief to be expressed in certain ways by us who, he says, made concessions to religious barbarisms." Interjected the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang...