Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate that the voyageurs are to travel in a commonplace Ford truck, and not, like Scaramouche, in a gaily painted wagon. So much, in these experiments, depends on the method of approach, that the loss in travelling time would be more than offset by the resultant gain in advertising, which could be achieved by having the comedian, in blackface, clashing cymbals from the roof of a purple-and-yellow moving van; as the caravan wound at an impressive pace through the countryside. Still, one can't have everything. For the present, Maine and New Hampshire will have to be content...
...Abandon hope all ye who enter here" will soon be-with the approach of the end of the Congressional session-if it is not already, a fitting motto to inscribe on the Senate calendar. For the less favored legislation the sign was raised long ago. The proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution is in this class. It went to the Senate three weeks ago. Senator Lodge (Republican) proposed considering it; Senator Wadsworth (Republican) objected. It was "postponed." Last week Senator David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat) proposed considering it; Senator King (Democrat) objected. For the benefit of constituents this comedy...
...approach of Spring, and the happy dispersion of musico-financial troubles (TIME, April 21, May 12, 19) seem to have infected Conductor Stokowski with more than a mild dash of gaiety, boisterousness, even vulgar abandon. Stokowski has started a hilarious military band in Philadelphia...
...same place early in the 90's. Then-the Schubert-Liszt Hark, Hark, the Lark, the melting melody of the 'Schubert B-flat Impromptu, and the inevitable Chopin group: Etudes, hurled like glittering lances, and a Scherzo that stung, bit and cooed seductively. Then encores-until the approach of the zero hour when gendarmes forcibly dispersed the immovably enraptured diehards...
...fact that the majority are condemned to the specific lies, it would seem, the strongest possible argument for the widest dissemination of those generalities which approach truth from both sides. The impact may bring war, as it did. When it took place near, the altar on the east wall, but it may also produce a Cromwell and a Harry Vane. And, as Carlyle would assert, it is the hero who directs traffic at the corners of the world...