Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is the point of the whole thing. Any playwright who must get his laughs from a revolver explosion, a smear of lipstick on the temple, and a fall on a couch that looks like a juggler getting ready to spin a barrel on his feet is no safe playmate for even the best stockcompany. It is to be supposed that at least two happy couples were united before the play closed: thereof the chronicler telleth not. In fact, he is thinking of writing a book called "Third Acts, by one who has never been there...
...novel writing as anything but an exuberant indulgence with, one also hopes, some lucrative return. There is nothing in this or in his first prose extravaganza, Sard Harker, to show that the Sage of Boar's Hill knows anything about novels except to start a tale and then spin away for all he is worth, and the devil take the hindermost reader. His new title stands for One Damn Thing After Another...
...with roaring cylinders, but could not rise from the clinging snowfield. Overhead there was perfect flying weather, bright and clear. Eielson ripped the throttle wide open. The Alaskan roared forward, kicking up a small blizzard, and at last crept clear and aloft?only, when she landed after a brisk spin, to crash into a buried wire fence at the end of the field, smashing her propeller, landing gear and fuselage. No Pole flight for her for many weeks...
...with Otto Kahn and Mayor Beach and Father Talley and Mother Talley and Sister Talley and a few favored delegates. There were speeches and a silver plaque presented by W. Frank Gentry in behalf of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. There were pressmen thirsty for new paragraphs to spin out their human interest story. Was she thrilled? No, she was a thrill-less person, she guessed. Had she been frightened? No. How did she feel now that it was all over? Why just about the same as she did before...
Therefore several sumptuously clad ladies uttered loud screams last week as the Prince executed a hair-raising spin on the ice, caught his left instep with the point of his right skate and crashed, sprawled...