Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning-Feb. 13-I got my first number of your TIME. For the first time in my life I saw the pictured face of Eugene O'Neill: on my writing table was a . . . portrait of Andreyev. I placed my hand over the lower part of O'Neill's face, and our Leonid's eyes confronted me, his fine brow and wave of dark hair (tidier, though). As to my hopeful expectation regarding TIME it is more than satisfied...
...Ohio, Candidate Willis enlivened the week by crying out at Columbus: "In these times we hear much of chains-chain broadcasting, chain motion pictures, chain stores, chain newspapers, chains in international trade. The fact is, under the chain system . . . the great middle class of our people face all the time greater difficulties in maintaining its independent existence. . . . Since when has the Republican Party come to the place where its candidates are to be dictated by a chain of newspapers that have never supported the Republican ticket...
...House end of the Capitol were Speaker Longworth's pink face and chubby smile...
...ticking metronome was set beside a dog. Simultaneously he was given a slight electric shock in the leg. This was repeated several times. Finally the metronome alone was used. As soon as it started ticking, up came the paw, the dog's face contracted with pain and he remained in agony until the instrument was removed...
...German thoroughness. The continued existence of this trait is seen in a report from Berlin on the thorny path laid out for the diplomats-to-be of the young republic. The German university curriculum is a strenuous enough struggle; but after that, three years of theoretical political studies face the apprentice statesman. Add to this requirement the necessity of completely mastering a minimum of three languages, and of acquiring the sports and social graces of foreign countries; and one sees the same perserverance that has actuated scholars in other fields, like Lippman, whose Entstehung der Alchemie still lulls Harvard...