Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a vast expanse of taut white shirts, Dr. A. de Graeff, Dutch Minister to the U. S., rose from his seat. Said he: "In Washington society I am frequently greeted, chiefly by ladies, as follows: 'And how is dear little Holland?' While I appreciate the sympathy, I take exception to the diminutive, and most strongly object to the 'dear.' At least as far as international law is concerned, I think that my country deserves a better name than 'dear little Holland...
...Wife of the Centaur. A centaur was half a man, half a beast. Author Cyril Hume knew that when he named his book. The producers forgot it when they cast sleek John Gilbert for exuberant Jeffrey Dwyer, taut poet, who loved one girl (Aileen Pringle) and married another (Eleanor Boardman). The producers also overlooked the fact that the one girl, who had later to cope with an idiot husband, furnished well over a third of the tale's power. Cheers for this film, if any, should be dedicated to Miss Boardman, the one able performer...
SILENCE-The old crook contrivances rearranged to make a taut evening. H. B. Warner is the man who escapes the electric chair...
...blue serge, with crisp yachting cap tilted to starboard?waved his hand. Chatting with pressmen, he stroked his goatee?a preposterous tuft no bigger than a barnacle?responded wittily to their sallies, screwing up his eyes when the sun shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...process, in brief, is as follows: The photographic film (it can be used wet, direct from the developing bath) is held taut and curved in the form of a cylinder, like an old-fashioned phonograph record. Light, from an ordinary automobile lamp, is passed through a lens and concentrated in a small spot at one corner of the film. At the receiving station a blank film is formed into a similar cylinder. By a device known as a synchronizer, the cylinders at both ends are started simultaneously and turned at the same rate of speed. The light beam travels...