Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When she could make herself heard, Raquel Meller began her U. S. career with a simple Spanish folksong, a song which might be the distant Castilian cousin of "Old Black Joe." It was so simple, so undemonstrative, that the connoisseurs after listening intently were conservative in their applause. The lights went up and they rustled their programs to find the condensed translation of the next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which...
...they sped, peering over the horizon for some distant rising film that would mean land. They reached what their instruments told them was the approximate point reached by Captain Robert E. Bartlett in the ice-ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert never before penetrated by man. When they circled back they had seen no land, but from their lofty lookout they had explored by eye a swath of the unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before...
Bride of the Storm is a pretty bad melodrama about a girl who was stranded on a distant reef inhabited by horrible men with bad ideas. She is rescued by a lovely young lieutenant, and none too soon you may be sure. Dolores Costello, loveliest and latest discovery among actresses, is wasted in the part...
...this is true and out of no story book. But it goes into a story book most readily. The young gentleman who has romanticized it was born in another tradition of colorful early America (a distant uncle was minister of finance to Ferdinand and Isabella). His literary abilities more than deserve the graceful prefatory gesture that is accorded them by Edward Lucas White...
...entry into the League. "The value of our being a member will not be so much to ourselves as to the other nations of the world from the added prestige which our participation will bring to the League." He also reiterated his belief that the time was not far distant which would see this country a member of the League...