Word: featness
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...being totally blind by telling all the characters what the rest are doing at any given moment. The audience sits, fascinated to the end, wondering how he did it. But with a shrewd twist, in which the director daringly departed from formula six, the movie never explains this feat, thus keeping the audience in suspense even after the lights...
...against Warren Harding, Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover. The Democrats' story was that they killed the dragon in 1932 (although it was so long adying that some economic pathologists say it really expired of arteriosclerosis and Pearl Harbor). The Democrats had been paid four times over for their feat, and the Amalgamated Dragonkillers (C.I.O.) could ask no more...
...mean feat, but the Deputy Speaker of the House managed not to see Bessie. So she promptly interrupted: "I have been deliberately ignored in this debate. I have been sitting here since 1150 a.m. . . . and I could not be missed. I will not sit down." It took Mr. Speaker himself, and a vote by the whole House, to dispose of battling Bessie. By 125 votes to 67, she was suspended for five days for her impertinence...
Davies' upsetting feat, in what amounted to a splashy preview of the Olympic tryouts, was typical of the meet. Though Davies will swim for Australia in the Olympics, the U.S. could gain considerable solace from other upsets and sparkling times. Among them...
...years after Hoppe's feat, Masako Katsura, who grew up in a suburban Tokyo billiard parlor run by her brother-in-law, won the Japanese women's straight-rail championship. Then 16, she soon caught the eye of Kinrey Matsuyama, the Japanese Hoppe, who was runner-up, on his last U.S. visit in 1936, for the three-cushion title. Contrary to the slanderous old saw, Masako's proficiency at billiards seemed to Matsuyama a sign of anything but a misspent youth. Coached by him to perfection in the basic and fancy three-cushion shots (see cut), Masako...