Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair stabilization of prices. Brazil's own experience with the valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger of government meddling in international trade. The present hubbub over rubber is mainly a political rather than business issue. It proceeds more from a desire to "twist the lion's tail than from a tender sympathy for tire manufacturers...
...team, which has been hindered from using its regular field on account of mud had its first real outdoor work yesterday. In accordance with the new plan of adopting the English system of play. Coach W. R. Welch instructed the candidates in the method of giving the ball a twist when kicking goals after fouls. The forward line also practiced passing and ways of breaking up opposing team work...
...many children have wept at the sight of poor little Oliver Twist dragging his emaciated shanks across Dickens's pages to plead for more soup! Or have wailed to see Jackle Coogan doing the same across the silver shest. The modern Oliver asks once and if the soup is not forthcoming, he lets drive at the cook with the soup bowl. At Yale there are five hundred modern Oliver in the freshman class. For some time they have been writing polite protests against the rule that freshmen must eat at the Commons, along with complaints about the quality and quantity...
...original variations, musical numbers and specialties. In the second act the struggle between Caesar and Antony is settled on the football field with Cleopatra playing. Cleopatra forfeits the game, but in a return encounter Antony saves the day by a play which he secures from a soothsayer. By a twist of dialogue the misunderstanding between Antony and Cleopatra is cleared up, the desired happy ending is achieved, and King Mud grants the pair their freedom...
...Library, in New York City, writing to an officer of the Boston Public Library on books and tastes of the day, bewailed the fact that "Our young readers want nothing but trash--such as Dickens and Thackeray. "Vanity Fair", "Pendennis", "The Newcomes", and "Esmond", had already been published; "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", and "Nicholas Nickleby", to mention but a few of the illustrious list, had appeared some time before. A hungry myriad of readers was clamoring for more "trash...