Word: unwound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...
...less we say the better. The jokes and articles are uniformly poor; the drawings for the most part little more. A frontispiece sketch depicting the infant freshman, lost amid a pile of grips, packages and steamer rugs, and finally unwound and revealed in the college office is the best of the lot. But who are the strange individuals in it masquerading as Deans? Can one of them be Mr. Whitney? We should like pleasantly to remark first that the "multitude of shins" idea, embodied in one of Ibis's "inklings" is as old, about, as Don Marquis...
...King. This slice of the cinema Outline of History takes the spectator for a protracted visit to Spain in the 16th Century. To afford opportunity for a vast and valuable display of costumes, helmets and architecture, a love story with familiar portions of jealousy and strife is unwound. Pictorially the production is excellent; as narrative it is dull. Blanche Sweet and Edmund Lowe make personable protagonists...
...artist seeks shelter in a lonely, high-turreted house where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...