Word: twist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sister, Princess Mary, married Viscount Lascelles (Feb. 28, 1922). Said Edward of Wales, reputedly, on that occasion: "Every day I get commoner and commoner, and every day Lascelles gets royaler and royaler." To Lord Lascelles and others of the landed peerage, the remark has seemed to have a backhand twist not inappropriate to Slummer Edward...
...Colby had reason to talk of herself as well as her husband last week. She had published a novel* with a political twist. Some said she had used her husband as one of the characters. Hence, her "colossal" and emphatic reply, to which she added...
...thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite lineups. In other words he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...
will doubtless write this scene into another play with an even more successful stench. Last week his "new twist" was to let the Major succumb to the wife after tongue-lashing her, and then to bring the husband wistfully on the scene...
...strange twist that makes Ohio the mother of Republican Presidents, staunch G. O. P. Senators, and Democratic Governors. James M. Cox, Democrat, was a popular Governor but a Presidential failure even in his own state. And so last week Ohio elected to his third term Governor Alvin Vic Donahey, Democrat, father of ten Children, who employs convicts about his house. But, by the politically learned, he is ignored as a presidential possibility...