Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came one more ironic twist in her story, about which she never knew. Krenn's business partner was a Russian, Edward A. Dato about whom Chicago knew nothing until last week when, bristling and important, he explained to newshawks...
...colorful readability of Arthur Krock (New York Times) or Clinton Wallace Gilbert (New York Evening Post) but his touch is lighter than that of Leroy Tudor Vernon (Chicago Daily News) or George Gould Lincoln (Washington Evening Star). Thoroughly experienced in national politics, he sometimes gives routine stories a special twist to lift them out of the obvious. Unlike his Sim colleague Frank Richardson Kent, he has no sharp sting in his pen. He specializes on complex railroad merger stories, leaves foreign affairs mostly to his smart assistant. Drew Pearson...
...knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering to the floor. A bath of fire removes the last shred of hair. A cleaver drops and rends the backbone. Exactly 25 minutes is the interim between living animal and carcass ready for the cooler. Twenty-four hours elapse before...
Brilliant but not unblemished, the career of Sir Richard Anderson Squires, Premier of Newfoundland, took a sharp, sensational downward twist last week. By one of the largest Opposition majorities ever piled up in a Dominion election 74% of Newfoundland's ballot casters voted to oust Squires...
...adequate and unexciting for ten years or until the first husband turns up again, successful, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt has been made to put into the picture the confused moral values of Author Barnes's novel, with the new twist confusing them even further. Typical sequence: Ann Harding and her first husband quarrel in a taxi. He gets out, goes to a speakeasy, repents, telephones her to join him. Ann Harding tramps gloomily in and says she is going to have a baby...