Word: twists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chance, done with an artful restraint. In it there is not the exuberance of Bacchic indulgence, nor the incessant drumming and tapping of a dance. There is one vigorous thunder-clap, worked by unseen soles upon the floor; and that is all. It ascends to the ceiling; worn faces twist half-concernedly about; the sacred door-keepers smile in placid obeisance to a higher will; the sound is crushed, and then gone...
...forgive you for making important front page announcements about a waiter lighting Coolidge's cigar or on just how that distinguished gentleman eats, but when you begin to tamper with news and twist meanings it's time to prick that bubble about TIME'S "plucking that needle of fact out of a haystack of news." If your comments cannot be more intelligent I suggest you borrow a leaf from the Nation's book and give us your foreign news in the manner of that journal's "International Relations Section." (But if you did I suppose you'd never reach...
...stupidly arrogant . . . letter signed Karl Busch which appears in your Dec. 14 issue, p. 2, fills me with a passionate desire to see its author violently thrown out of this country and forever barred from reentering. To twist a genuine tribute to Baron von Richthofen into a gratuitous insult to the American nation while enjoying its privileges as a resident is unforgettable and unforgivable. I would like to know Mr. Busch's street address. The American Legion and others might be interested...
...great tennis player, No. 2 on the U. S. list of singles players. He gave the Davis cup, which year by year has grown more famous, and in 1900 and 1901 he was on the team defending it. One of his contributions to tennis was the reverse twist service. But he went back to his native St. Louis and went into public life as a promoter of parks and playgrounds. As Park Commissioner he announced: "If we can't have both people and grass in the parks, we will have people." When the War came he went abroad doing...
Last week the 1925 football season began. Naturally, those who experienced most deliciously the cold intoxication of watching the first kickoffs of the year twist aloft were certain undersized individuals who had never been within a dozen counties of a college football field. They followed in their fancies the courses of a thousand champions. And of the many geared and wadded juggernauts whose prowess warranted attention, there was one whom the young idea, and indeed the adult, the conservative idea, lifted into eminence beside Thorpe, and throned in glory with Mahan? Harold ("Red") Grange, halfback of the University of Illinois...