Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number, but the two at hand seem to be the most salient topics. The bit on the opening page, entitled "Class Day Conversational Guide" is quite amusing, but the same cannot be said for the trolley car scene underneath which gives an outworn joke a rather new but dull twist...
...good one. During the course of his game, Champion Tilden glared at most of them. Sometimes, indeed, he stopped short and addressed them in terms that involved the names of prominent Biblical characters. The spectators pitied Champion Tilden's trouble with the spots, which assuredly gave an abominable twist to many of the balls he tried vainly to return; they marveled, at the same time, at the assurance of blond, pouting Vincent Richards, who paid no attention to the spots but drove, lobbed, half-volleyed as if every ball rose to his racket from the immaculate baize...
This last twist was a severe surprise to the initial audience who had sat through two hours of shoddy sentiment and were all ready to don their rubbers and go home with "Victory" and "I love you" ringing in their ears. For the Queen had become involved with the hardboiled revolutionary leader and it seemed almost inevitable that they would join forces. There was no excuse for the bloody ending (she was shot). It was probably furnished in the idea that death indicates honest tragedy. It was as out of place as a hearse on a hay ride...
...flight without landmarks and a twist without stalling were significant achievements of the week...
...they ascended to a height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd saw the two begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After descending a short distance, however, the men began to twist, whirl, somersault. Screams of horror went up from the onlookers. Rushing to the spot where the two would fall, these spectators found the courageous corporal, the intrepid sergeant. They were unhurt. When they had fallen 1,000 feet, they had pulled the ripcords of their parachutes, descended easily. Both said...