Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no use for him to read it because I memorize it as soon as it comes and tell it to him at the dinner table. I assure him that I give him only teasers but I strongly suspect him of superficiality because he doesn't read every word every week...
From Governor Young came word to cease firing, except on any fugitives trying to scale the walls or swim the river. At midnight, having meantime ordered the guard doubled at California's other big "pen," San Quentin, Governor Young reached Folsom in person and learned how things stood. A mass attack by 700 troopers, preceded by tanks, was planned for the next morning...
...author of your article "Irish Coast" in your issue of Nov. 14, a well-deserved word of praise...
Actor Campbell Gullan performs notably as the jealous huband exercising his shoddy, maniacal little power over the frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
...there was jabber of questions: "How did you learn?" . . . . Well I never! . . . Your touch is beautiful, Alf. . . . .Is it hard to play for a beginner, or was it just instinctive with you? . . . Alf, you never told us that you were musically inclined! . . . " To these questions, "Alf" answered not a word. he brushed a long, curly lock of his hair from his brow, smiled stupidly, and played, "Roamin' in the Gloamin' " on his fake accordion...