Word: yanks
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...Have you," meant Dr. Smith, "yet got sense enough to come in out of the rain without a yank from your mamma's apronstrings...
...average witness at times in the same mental haze as the hero. Matt Moore gives a convincing portrayal of the young man who kills a rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...
...Yank who ventured his unsophisticated humor upon the subtle air of Paris...
...goes throughout the game; the announcer calling out gains and the dummy football registering corresponding losses; Messrs. A. T. Blevitch and L. H. Yank being wanted on the telephone in the middle of forward passes; the noisy person in the back of the room yelling "Yea" on the slightest provocation and being hushed up at each outbreak; and every one wondering what the quarterback meant by calling for the plays he did. Somebody always wants to lead a cheer and somebody always wants to discourage it, with the result that there is a cheer. Late arrivals come in, radiating cold...
...without catharsis and in dismay at the outcome. Mr. LaFarge happily prefers to prefers to preserve to us a good man and rescues him from the lure of piracy through the good offices of Sentimental Jack, Captain of the Pirates. A young Frenchman falls among thieves. Another Frenchman, a Yank, a Portuguese and an African Black are introduced with good differentiation. Soon terror is spread in the heart of the hero and the reader is prepared for a critical scene full of danger. We are disappointed at this point to find the hero relieves himself from the embarrassment...