Word: threads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a faint mad thread of plot whereby famed Actress Cavendish nearly marries a millionaire and retires. Her lovely daughter has married; and in the third act retires from married life to the fascination of the theatre. The great character is aged Fanny Cavendish, pillar of the family tradition. She dies at the end. Thus the authors mix sorrow with breathless farce, the better to dimn the bewildering existence of this astounding family. Some fear the play is too acutely written from the inside of the theatre to appeal to audiences. The first audiences laughed resoundingly; and cried...
...appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed 14-year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative poem, The Wings of Lead, pointing, in lines that have a bright startling thread of childish ingenuity drawn through them, to ". . . The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead." Second prize went to Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, third to Poet Babette Deutsch. Poet W. R. Benet's Lindbergh is adroit and satisfactory. The other poems vary from slightly above...
...their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness of their tragedy is incongruously shattered by Marie Carroll, who, as the worm-eaten, twisted sister, insists upon...
...lower middle column, speaking of the Moffat road (Denver & Salt Lake), you say: "To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades. ... It was . . . and is ... the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
...through. The desirability of sending trains under rather than over the Continental Divide at that point was first discovered by a Denver banker, David Halliday Moffat, after he had spent a fortune building and trying to operate the Denver & Salt Lake R. R. To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades, describing in 23 miles curves totaling 28 full circles. It was-and is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world, far above timberline. It takes four locomotives to haul a 22-car train over...