Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PIRANDELLO would say that my inability to enjoy shoot is my own fault. Caught up in the treadmill of modern life, I have no time to read his novel leisurely as it should be read...
...Shoot, the operator of a moving picture camera, whose business is merely to turn the handle and observe, becomes almost as impersonal as his machine. As it registers sham, he registers life. The difference is that he comments; he comments endlessly. Marcel Proust alone could analyse motives and emotions more exhaustively. And I am afraid that only a person who really enjoys Proust, or who has read ""Ulysses"" from cover to cover will be able to wade through Pirandello's novel...
...drawn into an adventurous, aggressive or ambitious Byzantine policy in China. All we want to do in China is trade with China. We regard the 400,000,000 of Chinese as potential friends and customers. Almost the last thing you usually do with a potential customer is to shoot him. The last thing to wish is that the potential customer should shoot...
...Vault. Last week in Boston a young man paced away from a horizontal stick, set 13 ft. 7⅛ in. from the floor. Turning he rushed, planted a spiked pole, and released all available springs. Sabin Carr of Yale had set a new mark for indoor pole-vaulters to shoot at. He had come within ⅞ in. of Charles Hoff's supreme effort-which did not count because Mr. Hoff is a professional. Bluebird. In a Bluebird on the Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Capt. Malcolm Campbell broke the world's automobile record for a kilometre...
...Shoot the Works", the Pi Eta Club's 1927 production, enjoyed a visit yesterday afternoon from several members of the "Queen High" company now playing at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston...