Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replies the M. P. "Six years ago we gave you 'Oliver Twist' with Marie Doro; this winter we shall present 'Oliver Twist' with Jackie Coogan...
Cummings gave his best exhibition of the year, in winning from Moore of Holy Cross in straight sets. Moore had a peculiar twist service and his forehand strokes under good control and the only way that Cummings could gain the upper hand was by driving hard and deep to his opponent's backhand and taking...
Corey opened the scoring after several minutes of scrimmaging in the first half, slipping the ball past Pratt at close range with a short twist shot. French and Schmidt followed with goals in the order named at five minute intervals, both shots being caged from scrimmaging in front of the University goal. The play was evenly matched throughout the period with the ball see-sawing back and forth between the goals. But the visitors' defence broke up the University attack time and time again before it reached a scoring position...
...visitors opened the scoring after ten minutes of scrimmaging when a British attacking trio advanced from midfield abreast and, passing frequently to outwit the Crimson defence, caged a short shot for the initial goal. Their second score came several minutes later on a short twist shot by Wansbrough. Gallup and Thomas each has shots at the British goal but the University attack was weak, the half ending...
...trick at all to imitate a writer's style, especially if there are habitual outstanding excentricities of phrase and mental twist. The real parodist gets inside of his victim's mind, and compels him, not only in his own phrase and vocabulary but in his own kind of mental operation, to make fun of himself. Perhaps the beet example of this deadly skill in modern literature is that of Charles Stuart Calverly, that most brilliant of Victorian pranksters, who fairly reincarnated the very personality of his victims, An able citizen he, by the way, and of university fame; he still...