Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject on which the two schools often disagree," continued Mr. Lincoln, "is that of endings. The Realists are prone to think that good art requires them to end every story and play sadly or unpleasantly, and they are willing to twist circumstances in any way so as to accomplish their purpose. But they are somewhat narrow-minded in their point of view. For while they praise, as high art, the accidental killing of the hero at the end of a book that seems bound to turn out happily, they condemn the fortuitous death of a villain as catering...
...international court until forced upon him by European statesmen, and caused him to be generally intolerant of the legal point of view which Mr. Lansing represented by training and inheritance. This ignorance and disregard of the President's for the juristic side of the negotiations took a curious twist in his notion that a preliminary treaty or modus viviendi containing a skeleton of the League of Nations would not have to be ratified by the Senate...
...playing at center for the visitors, lifted a long shot from mid-ice towards the Crimson net, a tally seemed little likely. The puck took a sharp rebound from the back-boards, however; Holmes caught the rubber on his stick to pass, it down the ice, and an unfortunate twist lodged it safely in the net. No opponent was within ten yards when the play occurred...
...Want some more. . . ." Oliver Twist...
...theme of the prodigal son Grant Mitchell adds a humorous twist in "The Champion," now playing at the Park Square Theatre. This newest comedy is a modern and novel treatment of the much-abused parable; it offers ample scope for the peculiar talents of the star, and gives him a role that may be favorably compared with his immortal. John Paul Bart, the "Tailor-Made...