Word: exert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion film, "Evelyn Prentice," Myrna Loy and William Powell exert their talents to make the picture less obnoxious than the usual run of attorney-for-the-defense pictures...
...Harlow should not be condemned without a hearing. Perhaps the mere recitation of his coaching career does not tell the correct story. Perhaps too Mr. Bingham will see fit to exert enough control over football to stem the criticism that he believes the due of an institution which fosters a program of "going out and getting them." In any event, the final opinion as to whether Harvard has really gone "big-time" cannot correctly be made until the new regime takes over the reins...
After the Communist has hidden four days in the Parisian lady's apartment, they exert a strange influence on each other. Three square meals a day, 59-franc shirts and a change of socks open the Communist's eyes to "soft living." The lady takes to reading Red literature. When her husband uncovers the situation, the lacy makes a decision. The Communist is on his way to Toulouse and his hostess is preparing to join in his political vaga bondage by ordering herself a pair of stout walking shoes...
...reminisce about Composer Claude Debussy. She was his first Melisande, although Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck fought to have the part sung by Soprano Georgette Leblanc. One night in Paris Debussy's young wife Lili wanted the composer to attend a rich woman's dinner party, asked Mary Garden to exert her influence. Debussy decided to go. A year later he left Lili for the hostess who was better able to provide for his exquisite tastes...
...schools now, in order that later, when they are allied with them they may be able to stiffen the requirements. Such an answer to as important a problem as this is most unsatisfactory. For is it not conceivable that the eventual result may be that the schools will gradually exert more and more sway over the universities until the latter are no longer able to secure the changes for which they had hoped...