Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of Texas, as everyone knows, is red-headed Dan Moody, 35. By right of the usual sweeping Democratic majority, he will continue to be Governor for at least two years. And long before he is three-score and ten, he is expected to ask his party to let him do what, in 1928, Smith...
...Grecian blonde once made tall trouble and men have never forgotten. Long before Christ they knew her as the fairest of all women, the one the Trojan Paris stole, for whom the Greeks fought ten long years. Brave warriors died for Helen. Brave poets since have spent their dearest words on her. She has been Menelaus' Helen, Paris' Helen; Homer's Helen, too, and the Helen of Herodotus, Euripides, of Kit Marlowe, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang. Recently John Erskine, perspicacious professor at Columbia University, won fame with his Helen refurbished. Last week and for the first time...
...German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...
...Ten Days That Shook the World, heralded as another masterpiece from Amkino (Russian) studios, producers of Potemkin, turned out to be a brilliant, tiresome piece of Soviet propaganda. In an impressionistic manner not, as is commonly believed, originated by him, Director Eisenstein shows kaleidoscopic guns firing, statues falling, bottles breaking in superimposed shots the rapidity of which strains the eyes and makes them hard to watch. Hollywood directors, advised by intellectuals to learn their Eisenstein, would profit little from seeing, as they will not, this newsreel of the Russian revolution which lacks the most valuable feature that a newsreel...
...Ten miles northwest of "The Point," where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers meet to form the mighty Ohio, and where Fort Duquesne (1754), became the nub of Pittsburgh, Brunot's Island is now within the city limits. Pittsburgh's harbor, crowded with pleasure boats, barges, steamships, extends about 30 miles along its three rivers...