Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Night of Romance. Constance Talmadge does not perform very often. It is just and eminently fitting that when she does she selects a good sustaining menu of amusement. Such a menu is the present film. It is all light food, thin and made for laughter. Arriving in England is an American heiress to $10,000,000. Starving in England at the same time is Lord Menford. To frighten off the wolf, Lord Menford sells to this heiress his estate, "catches a bun" the next night and is delivered to his ancient gates. Thereupon they are marooned together for two nights...
Mile. Last week, on the indoor track of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Paavo Nurmi of Finland made his first appearance in the U. S. His first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his right hand, he carried the little watch by which he timed his stride. He disdained, at the start, the conventional crouch. Ray (Illinois A. C.) and Hahn (Boston A. A.) both got away from the pistol before him. Through the first lap, while his competitors jostled for position, Nurmi kept...
...than this, he defeated Ray and Ritola - his most potent rivals. More than this, he caused it to appear as if these men - both, beyond a doubt, among the world's swiftest runners - were novices and that he alone ran as a good runner should. Thus did this thin blond Finn alter, for those who watched, the standard by which they had been used to measure the speed of human legs...
GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE-Ina Claire agreeably occupied in demonstrating that, no matter how thin a comedy of divorce may be, she can make it generously amusing...
...thin? Quite correct you conjecture...