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Such things are ghastly to contemplate. More ghastly here, perhaps, than in any other mystery play this season. As acted by a goodly troupe including Helen Chandler, heroine, Alan Dinehart, hero, and Clarke Silvernail, Chinese servant, they wring frightened yelps from a trembling audience. Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments. On the way home spectators can be heard boasting they didn't believe a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...moving out. The second act exhibits the difficulties of unpacking and moving in. In the last act they sell the house. The result suggests that a few capable character actors employed two docile writers to construct a drama in which there would be a part for each. They wring considerable laughter out of dried up situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...that after all, humor is limited and minds even of jesters will grow tired. But may we offer a suggestion? It is not wise to make a clock tick backwards. The past cannot be idly conjured up. It would be better, perhaps, to reiterate time-worn subjects, and to wring out mirth from the present at the expense of other colleges, cities, and societies, than to revert to the past, and bring to light only stuffed caricatures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JESTER'S BELLS FAIL TO TINKLE AS LAMPY NAPS | 2/3/1927 | See Source »

...first week in December and begins the middle of April. It is at the end of the season that St. Mary's River becomes a veritable hell for mariners, with ice smashing down the river. Sailors go through it, however, at the bidding of their masters zealous to wring a last dollar from transportation. Last week this sailors' hell was frozen over-solid. In the West Neebish Channel, in the Rock Cut and in Mud Lake there were spots where the waters were solid to the channel bottom. Not a ship could pass through. More than one hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Last week's convention of the American Gas Association at Atlantic City, brought forth new gifts which gasmen have learned to wring from their favorite commodity, or which are under way. Gas-Cold. The Consolidated Gas Co. of New York declared that January would behold quantity production of a "foolproof," silent refrigerator without any moving parts,* in which a liquid is kept circulating by a gas flame. At one point in its circuit, the liquid absorbs heat, producing cold. Housewives could see themselves "lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gifts of Gas | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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