Word: twig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capable. His fortunes are complicated by the presence of Winifred (Katharine Alexander), who has for some time been his mistress and Laura (Alice Brady), who imagines herself to have been his mistress once. These two women scorned, naturally feel internally agitated at being cut out by a more twig, the niece of one, the daughter of the other. Alice Brady, in her role of a flighty and almost mindless but well-meaning woman, is perfectly at home; her lines are among the in the lot, and she delivers them with is which could not is surpassed. Lionel Bartymore, as grouohy...
...minister to everything but a mind diseased, finally gives up, lets him arrange his suicide. Says Peter: "A man's but human. A woman can rise above being human seemingly; but I never met the man that could." One morning he is found dead in a hedge; a twig might have pulled his shotgun's trigger. Avis bears up, has her baby, goes on being dauntless. To Midwinter, on vacation this time, she has the nerve to tell the whole story, guessing he will let bygones be. How her infant son will turn out, hints Author Phillpotts, will...
...twig six or seven inches long cut from the dantan tree, after one end of the twig has Deen chewed to a pulp. To clean the tongue the same twig which has cleaned the teeth is split in two and brushed across...
Died. Mrs. Flavia Camp Canfield, 86, widow of the late James Hulme Canfield (onetime president of Ohio State University), mother of Novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher (The Bent Twig, The Brimming Cup, Her Son's Wife); at her country home near Arlington...
...blood-blister; garapatas, which cling together in swarms; stingless bees, which crawled "up our nostrils, into our ears, down our necks"; fire ants, whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down with a twig. When they were working through rapids they had to look out for sting rays. It took them 27 days of "most persistent toil" to make 180 miles -which was 60 miles in a straight line...