Word: twists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FATA MORGANA?Gives a spicy twist to the love of May for September, resulting in a Spring freshet of tears...
...Hicks '10 pitched a no-hit game against Princeton, a feat never accomplished before or since. Spalding came close, even closer than the box score indicates, to equalling Hicks's performance. In the fifth inning with two out shortstop Richards, guaging a Spalding twist badly, caught it on the handle of his bat and dropped it over Campbell's head into short right field for a single. In the sixth Foster led off with a high fly that either Jenkins, Todd or Gordon could have cut, and while the three were doing the Alphonse-Gaston act, the ball dropped safely...
...moved native and impressive through a thousand gripping novels. A voluntary bath of blood unfortunately washed the glamor from this old Russian life and left the rest of the world amazed and horrified by tales of the temperamental Red gone politically and economically wild. To the conservative the last twist to Russia's woeful thread of fate is given by Charles Recht's report that Russia is using the United States as a model and trying to "Americanize its theatres, schools, and laws...
...such. It is filled with information, treated with a saving grace of humor. The writer lists the best pictures within the period covered by his book, as follows : Nanook of the North, Grandma's Boy, Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Eternal Flame, Shadows, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, Peg o' My Heart, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Driven, The Pilgrim, Down to the Sea in Ships, The Covered Wagon, Hollywood, Merry-Go-Round. These Mr. Sherwood adduces to show that the film industry can produce works of art. To each he gives a compact critical survey...
...prominent box and translates a French comedy first into English, and then into Russian for his mother's benefit, he is at his best. Then there is George Hassell. Wherever these three act, the most ordinary piece of comedy becomes funny by the addition of an amusing freshness and twist...