Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plate they have a human desire to crack something. They want to get back at the other pitcher for all the hits that have whistled past their ears. Although the proposal does not prevent the pitchers from taking their turns, the chances are that managers would discover some player short on brains and fielding prowess, but able to hit them far and frequently, who would stay on the roster as a hitter and nothing else, to the exclusion of the pitcher from the batter...
These concerts, which will be open to Union Members only, and which will be formal, constitute an attempt of the management to enlarge the system of short Sunday evening programs formerly in vogue, which have drawn an audience varying from 200 to 500. It is hoped that this series of six will be even more popular...
...contestants stood up so eagerly to cleave the air with passes at each other. It is true that the little brethen of the South felt none of the reverberations of the World War except indirectly; but that does not explain the clouds in Europe. The visions of suffering are short-lived. The jealousy of patriotism is enduring. A new generation kneels to receive its inheritance, and is still too unsophisticated to toss aside, the spoiled portions of it. This is a perfect scene for the cynic, in all points but one; it is too genuinely pitiful...
...asides, made their characters utter their real thoughts during conventional dialog, a device awkward in fiction or on the stage but natural and effective in the many pictures which have contained hints of it. Used here to great extent, the trick adds interest to Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live up to his reputation as the greatest lover in Hollywood, John Gilbert makes his eyes...
...plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made short shrift by changing his signature to U. S. Grant...