Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward Calcium Carbide-ville, only to suffer a bad reverse on the barbed wire entanglements of the Power Trust. (Power companies supply electricity to manufacture calcium in plants widely scattered over the U. S.) Thirteen Democrats with power or carbide plants in their States broke ranks in the face of the enemy, refused to charge. The assault to halve the ifz'-per-lb. rate was repulsed by the regular Republicans...
...Savior, the Holy Virgin and the Deity he writes: "Ancient and modern myths are only meaningless pictures which are fading out. Sooner or later the celestial personalities will be no more than a memory of fairyland. Face to face with the universe, man will be the sole evidence of his audacious dreams of divinity, since the god he vainly sought is himself...
Suddenly a young man in pale grey knickerbockers, his own face even paler, darted through the police cordon, pointed a nickel revolver at Prince Umberto, fired, then tripped over a trolley track as he fired again. Instantly Brussels' famed War-time hero, Burgomaster Max sprang in front of H. R. H. to shield him. The royal chauffeur beat down the assassin's arm. A policeman struck him swiftly with his sword...
...Gates is a close friend of Bishop Manning. Short, round, bespectacled, 63, with plump, mild face and greyish head, he dislikes to be called high-church, prefers "oldfashioned Episcopalian." He has been head of the parish of the Intercession more than 25 years. Born in Gardner, Mass., he is a graduate of Amherst (nine years before Calvin Coolidge), the General Seminary, St. Stephen's College. He is known as a good preacher, scholar of church architecture, president of the Sanctity of Marriage Society which seeks to keep divorced persons from remarrying in the Church, 32nd-degree Mason, national chaplain...
...haircuts for existence must be ranked with the village tonsorial artist who makes a sideline of pulling teeth." A barber of standards, it was pointed out, would necessarily have studied hygiene, bacteriology, histology of the hair, skin, nails, muscles, and nerves. He would know the structure of the face and neck. He would be able to bleach and tint hair...