Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soldiers Field, Cambridge, Mass., is surrounded by a dreary, dilapidated stadium; from factory chimneys near it long pennants of smoke twist in the wind and mark the low sky. Into the stadium last week there drifted a drooling drizzle and a cold, odorous draught. North Carolina, accustomed to warm blue afternoons, grew as stiff as a dying hare. Harvard backs called Gilligan and French fooled Carolina ends called Sapp and Presson so well that Harvard won 20-0. --Time...
Those leaping, shifting, fugitive things called jaywalkers, who twist their way through traffic, will become an extinct species if the rules of the new traffic code just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield...
...only noticeable song in the show, "I Wanna Be Loved by You," kept bubbling out of Helen Kane. Helen Kane puts a teasing twist in her delivery of "But-dut-de-dut" or "Vo-do-de-o," which she practiced first in a single act in vaudeville, later in Shubert musical comedy and most recently in Publix Theatres, with the inexpert assistance of Paul...
...leave the Army, had amassed ?200,000 (convenient symbol for $1,000,000). When the will was read, the startling disclosure came. He had been a moneylender. Anonymously, it is true, but a moneylender nonetheless. As if that were not surprise enough, the will-reading ceremony brought out a twist in the Major's character, which threatened to disrupt all. A condition of the will: to his daughter Lillian Luttrell he leaves the fortune, providing she marries Samuel Levi, his associate moneylender. Should she refuse to marry Levi, the fortune goes to Levi. Should he refuse to marry...
...popular hero. But the hurly-burly life of urban man disturbs him so much that he denounces civilization, returns to the Arctic. This film was made by First National Pictures with a German cast. Paul Wegener as Captain Ramper is proficient, though his racoon-skin costume has a collegiate twist. Original, entertaining...