Word: spun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girl on the Barge (Universal). A director with more interest in his material and with a better cast could have made a fine picture out of a hard-drinking, Scotch barge-captain's opposition to his daughter's romance with a deckhand. Indifferent, however, to life spun out in slow journeys up and down canals, or perhaps discouraged by Actress Sally O'Neill's coyness and Actor Malcolm MacGregor's self-possession, the producers of this picture combine mediocre photography with choppy storytelling. Worst shot: studio tank vexed by a wind-machine to indicate...
During succeeding centuries, especially during the 19th, scientist-philosophers recognized more and more elements in nature. Once the world was considered flat with the sun leaping over it daily, the moon nightly. Then Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) showed that the moon spun around the earth and that the moon and earth together spun around...
...thing happened quickly. Thomason of Georgia Tech fumbled on his 25-yard line and Riegels picked up the ball, collided with someone, spun around, and began to run toward his own goalline. No one ran after him except photographers who, quicker than Riegels' teammates, saw their chance not to prevent but to immortalize a tragic event (see cut). At last. Lorn started after Riegels but he did not catch the lumbering centre until they reached the four-yard line. He tried to tell Riegels what had happened but though he shouted the words into his ear, Riegels could...
...south of the Mexican border, Latin American telephone systems are now on a par with the U.S. systems of 30 years ago. Some of their equipment actually dates from that period. Important cities have no direct links; rural telephones scarcely exist. Around each densely settled community is spun a small network of telephones, having no relation to neighboring networks. In all Latin America, there is less than one telephone for each 100 inhabitants. The present U.S. ratio...
Upon the shoulders of Helen Hayes, Charles Waldron, Bryant Sells falls most heavily the burden of making "Coquette" convincing. It is around them that the tense situations are spun, and it is through their telling characterizations that this play has been put across...