Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guide disappeared out of sight above the two followers. Suddenly a large rock fell past them, clearing the face of the cliff by five or six feet and a moment later the unfortunate guide followed it. The turn of rope around the rock saved the others for the sharp edges of the rock severed the rope as the weight of the falling body strained it. At any rate the body of the luckless climber was found when the two who were left descended. So these moving pictures are being shown to various audiences for the benefit of the widow...
Homer Hoch, born on the Fourth of July in Marion, Kan., is a slim, sharp, dark firecracker under the oldtimers of the House. Not yet 50, he switched about in a variety of Government jobs, kept up his law practice, edited a country paper. He entered Congress in 1919. He stands high as a transportation expert and is rapidly learning the technique of the Steering Committee...
...bright, playful people of the Theatre Guild have long gambled luckily on the golden Shaw, and they never succeed better than when they exhibit his sly profundities to their legion of supporters. Winifred Lenihan is Major Barbara, Helen Westley is her sharp-tongued mother. Elliot Cabot is the Greek professor who at one point addresses Millionaire Dudley Digges as Mephistopheles, which Dudley Digges has been in Faust, until quite recently...
Hunters may fear that they have tularemia if they suddenly feel sharp chills and sweats, if at the same time they have severe headaches, aching pains in the back, hands and feet, prostration. Vomiting, diarrhea and delirium are other signs. Ulcers and swollen lymph glands usually develop...
Just in time. Author Davis prevents his play from becoming a study of puppy love frustrated. Once more the problem of old Keith's circuit among suburban sirens is brought forward, to stay for a curtain which is as nearly satisfactory as possible. Of a sharp, clever cast, one of the pleasanter bits was done by Owen Davis Jr. as the younger Keith...