Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boheme. In a perfect spasm of Art and classic reverence, Metro-Goldwyn has taken the fiction of Henry Murger, chiefly famous for Puccini's opera written around it, and produced a "super-picture." Lillian Gish and John Gilbert are the players and the director is King Vidor. After failing in an attempt to purchase the cinema rights to the Puccini music (although it is said $150,000 was offered), a complete special score was obtained which approximated the classic melodies. Everything then was done to make the picture memorable. It turned out a trifle-tiresome. The story...
...attempted illustrations "krem of whet" and "ye krem" would giv any student of fonology a spasm. I never saw em used for the sound in seem. It is always as in gem,-hem. To skolars c is merely the round form of k and some day wil be displaced by k; but we leav cream as no one mispronounces it. "-But we spel leag so foreners and children won't pronouns it in 2 sylables like ague. They call head heed, like bead, but our hed is clearer as is our shorter and better hav; but have will...
...Germany settled down for the second spasm of the presidential campaign (TIME...
Though the batting has been poor, the pitching has been consistently good, and the fielding equally so with the exception of an erratic spasm Friday. Brown's work in the box Saturday was by far his best of the season. Wildness has held him back all year, but his control against the Brunonians was excellent. He walked but two men, and would have pitched a shut-out except for three bunched singles in the first inning...
...Phillip Spalding '25 with men on bases, gave Harvard a 10-8 Victory over Boston University in the first baseball game of the season last Saturday. Spalding pitched the entire nine innings. He allowed numerous passes, but would probably have scored a shut-out victory except for a spasm of wild throwing by his team makes in the fifth inning which betted three runs...