Word: unfolding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calvin Coolidge has a candidacy. Nonetheless, the question now arises: how soon will he step out of the cocoon of work to unfold the glittering wings of an active candidate? There was a press report abroad which said in so many words that by the middle of December 'Mr. Coolidge's boom would be loud in every state; his preconvention campaign manager and submanagers would be picked; their headquarters would dot the country...
...opera. First a pleasant popular novel; then a singularly fine cinema (TIME,Oct. 8); finally a moderately entertaining example of the cloak and sword in drama. An illegitimate child, a revolutionist, a wandering mountebank, finally "the most powerful man in Paris" during the Revolution; thus the fortunes of Scaramouche unfold. Unfortunately the quiet talents of that excellent actor Sidney Blackmer fit wretchedly the heroic velvet and sash of the hero. When fiery flame is needed he only smoulders pleasantly. Otherwise the cast and the production are considerably better than the arrant melodrama deserves...
Well do we remember the commotion aroused in the University, less than a year ago, by the birth of a new literary light with a gospel of reform to unfold. Parodies of red, gray, and yellow joined the white-covered original in ornamenting the coat pockets of undergraduates for days, and the stands on the Square did a thriving trade...