Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the last century wood engraving sank from the level of an infinitely skillful art, for the invention of photo-graphic processes seemed to displace it. About 15 years ago it came to life again with a new technique, as a medium in, which many creative artists chose to express themselves. Through an expert use of the peculiar qualities of the wood, effects of rare beauty can be obtained, which are distinctly different from those of the etching...
...foreword to the program of Mayor Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...
Another year. Florence has had her baby and lived. Junior has recovered and is at school in Connecticut. Walter's business has trebled. But a hiatus has occurred in the duet of Florence & Walter. Things have not been the same since he chose between her and his son. An old admirer asks Florence to elope with him; she is on the verge of so doing but the old admirer refuses to let her take along her baby. That spoils the elopement. Walter at this point comes barging in, flower-laden, to find Florence at the telephone asking Junior, whom...
...friendly parson in "Noo Yo'k;" and ordered Hagar to keep her mout' shet if caught and questioned about the murder. But Hagar knew the prying prosecutor would "dig and dance and circle" until he had wrung from her the whole story involving Lissa, so she chose the quieter...
...contiguity of Tycoon Penney and President-Elect Hoover, who chose the Penney mansion at Miami for his pre-inaugural retreat, added an emphasis to the Cannon award. It was perhaps circumstantial, perhaps significant, that a close and potent friend of Mr. Hoover's should regard Dry fervor as religious service...