Word: twist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...novel twist of one of the oldest existing publicity ideas-the lottery scheme-recently occurred, simultaneously, to the editors of certain vulgar U. S. newspapers. To issue lottery tickets redeemable for cash is, of course, forbidden by law. But, since all paper bills are numbered, why not, thought the editors, make currency itself the lottery tickets? Every day certain newspapers began to publish the serial numbers of $1 and $2 bills. Persons who found lucky-number bills in their possession could redeem them for substantial prizes. Cashiers began to spend hours reading the numbers of all the bills that passed...
...racquet meets the ball. He never seems particularly concerned with what he is doing. No matter how fierce his match, he always has an air of being one of the linesmen. He depends for success on his celebrated chop-stroke- a shot which he executes with the same twist of the wrist that a chef in the front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely low. With it, Johnson clipped down Anderson...
many schools of the Theatre tried a new twist with this one. They hired a few professional actors and filled the other parts with pupils, thus giving the latter the privilege of appearing, as advertised, in a Broadway production. For this purpose they chose a poetical prize play on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. A goodly portion of the audience the opening night were parents of those concerned. It is likely that succeeding audiences, if any. will be similarly composed...
Grand yarn-spinner though he is, Author Beach never on any account saves a tart twist...
FAME - Micheline Keating - Putnam ($2.00). A tangle of love, libertines and the pursuit of happiness among stage folk and artists, including an CEdipus twist where the high-strung heroine and her father, not knowing their relationship, nearly wed, is pretty strong stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...