Word: caressed
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...lowly potato, milk the noble cow, and feed the treacherous pig. Let our men best their walking sticks into ploughshares, and let our women turn in their card tables for threshing machines. Let us open our shirts at the throat and sing as the cool winds of Heaven caress our hot foreheads. Back to the soil! Live as our forefathers did! Wrest a living from the land! Such action is our only hope of salvation, our only means of procuring peace, indeed after a little of such action most of us will find ourselves not only back to the soil...
Hold him close to you with love's caress...
...made his reputation as the Screen's Greatest Lover. The photography and recording are good, but not the adaptation : Redemption might have been told with more continuity if less time had been wasted on photographic atmosphere. Typical shot: Gilbert jumping up against a garden wall in the moonlight to caress the hand of the heroine...
...respecter of the religious impulse, Mencken has some illuminating things to say about it: "Always, in time of bloodshed, pestilence and poverty, there is what theologians call a great spiritual awakening. But when peace and plenty caress the land the priest has a hard time keeping his flock at prayer, and great numbers desert him altogether. ... I am myself a theologian of considerable gifts, and yet I can no more imagine immortality than I can imagine the Void which existed before matter took form. Neither, I suspect, can the Pope...
...Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut was an ordeal. But stern fellows like Oscar Thompson of the Evening Post and Richard L. Stokes of the Evening World wasted no words. For Critic...