Word: skein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tour of inspection. A bad old villain chases her through a fearful storm to a deserted cabin. The hero rescues her, but she returns to fox-trotting. There is still the ranchman's daughter. Marjorie Daw, Lois Wilson, Richard Dix and Noah Beery wind this yarn into a skein of considerable entertainment...
Last year the broken skein of relations was retied. Dartmouth came once more to Cambridge as a big mid-season rival and has come this year as the b. m. s. r. Whether one side or the other wins, or whether both win and lose in a tie matters much at the moment but less and less as time effaces the record. One thing important does remain, however--that two large and significant colleges have rejoined and reopened a valuable relationship. As trade follows the flag, so in this instance it may be hoped that social and intellectual intercourse will...
...most of all he has given us a glimpse of Abraham Lincoln in the making. The main theme of the volume is the story of the "years of building and sentiment," before Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd, and the significant thread in the whole skein of minor plots is the romance of Abe and Ann Rutledge. This episode Mr. Bacheller makes the turning point in the life of his hero. He makes one of his characters say after Lincoln's last visit to Ann before her death...