Word: turned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equally rare sense of proportion. Yet throughout the course of events which he vividly depicts--here in minute detail--there is sweeping epic style--and here again with a touch of human sympathy--one finds that justice has been a main chord. South and North, each has its turn--probably the reason both these sections of our country have acclaimed the book as a classic. A striking feature is the manner in which Benet handles such a wide field. One might say the war is dealt with in terms of various imaginary individuals and their reactions. This lends that personal...
...There is hardly any need to comment on the Harvard backfield. Obviously you possess several brilliant runners and defense players composing a well balanced group. If Harvard continues to turn out the performance which it gave against us today I think it will cause a lot of worry this fall to any team in the East...
...vast body of Americans until the World's Series has come and gone. Today when the two best baseball teams in the United States meet in New York for the first game in this year's series, not even the autumn chill that usually accompanies it will turn the minds of on lookers from the great national game to those more vigorous fall sports soon to eclipse it. For the next week baseball is king in the sports world and speculations over the strength of the Yale eleven must give place to arguments over the relative merits of Haines...
...transactions on the New York Stock Exchange reached 9% one day last week. That enticed vast new sums for loaning and retarded trading. Less trading caused less demand for the horde of money. So the call rate dropped the next day to 8%, to 7 1/2%. That in turn gave traders a chance to make money on stock deals. They scrambled. When the day was over they had swapped more than 4,700,000 shares. Motors and oils were popular. Someone bought $6,000,000 of General Motors stock in a single deal. There were other large deals...
...hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...