Word: approached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critics. Burton Rascoe: "The conclusion ... is a moving diminuendo on muted strings after a stirring approach to the climax. It is a matter of charm and solace after excitement, of emotion remembered in tranquillity...
...same family are summoned by the playwright. Father and mother are about to disagree amiably in order that father may marry another. Daughter is horrified; grandfather and grandmother combine with their children's child to prevent the family schism. Their efforts are for the most part amusing and occasionally approach a comic brilliance...
...With the approach of the Congressional Session, there also approached Señor Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, who was on his way to the U. S. to tell the War Department and members of Congress why the Philippines should be made independent...
...hope to approach these gentleman, and with their cooperation obtain evidence which will help to establish the telepathic theory...
...play; in reality, she survived this episode by twenty-seven years. But no one can read the play and not be convinced that her suicide was the logical, certainly the most artistic ending for her glittering career. The author show an ambitious, ruthless woman, frightened by the approach of age and the failing devotion of the king into the most desperate measures for retaining her remarkable domination. While the king amuses himself with younger, prettier women, La Montespan performs the most diabolical, awful sacrifices in the belief that she can thereby hold the fickle monarch; and M. Rolland has woven...