Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bomboola. Out of the inexhaustible deeps of Harlem came this musical comedy, less percussive than last fortnight's amazing Hot Chocolates, tending more toward Negro moods of grace and .pathos. High spot: a party scene in which the dancing couples move their feet least of all and become revivalists at the entrance of the police...
...very easy to spot a good "assistant," and also a poor one. In the first place, the good assistant knows his subject and can present it to his students in an intelligent way. In the second place, his attitude to his students is friendly. The poor "assistant" very often is so unable to teach that he completely conceals whatever knowledge he has of the subject. He gives the impression of knowing nothing whatsoever about it. He also gives the impression that he is out to "beat" the student in a little game that he wins if he can give...
...with a double indemnity clause in case he died by accident. Then she worked on young Manchester to take her gun and kill Parks. She promised Manchester $1,000 of the $14,000 they would realize. After some hesitation, and some difficulty luring Parks to a good spot, Manchester did his part of the bargain last week...
With the sunset gone and darkness settling down upon Bury Hill, the master of Arundel Castle had still to set the final signal of his coming of age. Just outside the castle grounds at a bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties...
...fliers with War experience now mark Sioux City as a spot on their maps where they can stop for good talk, in the supranational camaraderie of the air, about flying and fighting on both sides of a line now erased...