Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash and Perlmutter play. Rosie is there-and Feldman the unscrupulous lawyer-and Irma Potash's love affair with Boris Anndrieff. Barney Bernard...
...this connection a political mud-slinging contest sprang up. Commissioner Wallis was a Wilson appointee. Commissioners Tod and Curran were Harding appointees. Mr. Tod was described by Ambassador Geddes as "a gentleman of independent means . . . who holds office for patriotic reasons. Any country might be proud to point to him as one of its officials." But Republican Mr. Curran did not treat Democratic Mr. Wallis with equal consideration. He accused the former Commissioner of using his post for political ends and denied that Ellis island was " a vale of tears." Mr. Curran further added that " Americanization " speeches took place...
Opposition to Mr. Baruch's plan sprang up at once, however. J. M. Mehl, who is secretary of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., declared there was no possibility of their buying the Armour Grain Co. for two good reasons. First, the farmers lack the money, and, second, the farmers are determined to set up their own grower-owned and controlled agencies. The American Farm Bureau Federation issued a similar statement. Mr. Baruch declined further comment...
...this question, shrouded as it frequently is in proved fraud and sensational mummery, an object of scientific attention and experiment? Chiefly because for 40 years a number of eminent men have been convinced exponents of supernaturalism. The movement sprang largely from the British Society for Psychical Research, organized in 1882, among whose founders, presidents, or sympathizers have been numbered Lord Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Alfred Russell Wallace, Lord Rayleigh, Prof. Gilbert Murray, F. W. H. Myers, Sir William Crookes, Andrew Lang, Prof. Henry Sedgwick, Richard Hodgson, Sir James Barrie, Conan Doyle, and in France, Professors Henri Bergson...
Beard of Pennsylvania sprang the surprise of the afternoon when he overcame Pfaffman, 6-3, 6-4. Beard was again fortunate when he and Moran scored Pennsylvania's second point by defeating Briggs and Dixon...