Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot there is so little that the play might readily have been run as a musical comedy, with infinite gain in speed and box-office receipts. Lie follows lie in the most amazing succession, so that even the most-cynical of males would be sated, and turn trustingly to his companion. "No woman could lie like that." Yet, despite the never ending procession of lies the play palls during the second act, palls indeed until The-Shot-Outside. No audience can resist The-Shot-Outside...
...component of The Federation of Soviet Socialist Republics of Transcaucasia, which is in turn a component of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics: "U. S. S. R.": "Russia...
...strength of his native wing is three times that of the German, twice that of the Italian, 33 times that of the French. But being Mr. Gatti-Casazza and little given to explanation in English, he will probably throw up his hands, say "Find me an American Caruso!" turn on his heel and go about his business, imperturbable again, dignified, the very personification of authority...
Rabbits had been used for the tests on animal tissue. A tenth of a second's exposure for a patch of ear-skin had made the patch lose its hair and turn dark. Not for seven weeks did hair reap, pear. Another patch was exposed for a second. A scab formed in a few days, fell off taking the hair with it-and in two weeks a growth of new hair, white instead of grey and thrice as profuse as previously, sprouted...
What is lacking in episode is made up in anecdote: Grandfather McGehee's second wedding, to which the bride never came for a reason which he long disdained to reveal; Cousins Hester and Micajah McGehee, who stuck a pin in their candle to show whose turn it was to talk; the first Communion of Uncle George's black man, Solomon, who reported that the parson had given him the cup with the words: "Pass de goblet an' say, 'Brethren, jink...