Word: winch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his clipper-ships. The "Chance" will be 75 feet long, and will have a displacement of 40 tons. Iselin designed her himself. She will be a schooner with a 40 horse power Lathrop engine to be used in case of calm in the fjords, and for running the winch to which will be attached 400 fathoms of gear. This is approximately the depth of the water over the Continental shelf...
...Theatre on Monday night, for the first time in America, was presented Charles McEvoy's "The Likes of 'Er". The play is on the whole a simple and quite unaffected story arising from post-war conditions, a comedy that mixes pathos with humor. The plot concerns itself with Sally Winch waiting for the return of George Miles her sweetheart. Sally has other wooers, and these attempt to tell stories against Miles. But she refuses to believe them, even the one told by Miles' friend Cope, who is an artist in falsification, and who described Miles' condition because George has believed...
Souls for Sale. Anyone who has ever tacked up a picture of Mary Pickford over the bureau or sighed as she looked first at Valentino and then at her husband, will be more than interested in this semi-official expose (winch means whitewashing) of Hollywood and its denizens. The actual processes that go to the making of a big film-the everyday life of stars, directors and camp followers-these are entertainingly and faithfully depicted. In fact about the only thing omitted is a close-up of the interior of, say, Mr. Ince's mind. Of course the only...