Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something of the horrid dismay their clients must have felt in the face of such fatal flippancy was reflected in the renewed efforts of Lawyer Hill and associates last week...
...Kaiser. The year of Reinhardt's arrival in Berlin was a period of intense realism in the Teutonic theatre, when every dunghill and sweat bead in the dialogue found its concrete embodiment on the stage. His Imperial Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm II, would have it so, having set his imperial face against the art of Painter Lieberman, Poet Hauptmann, Composer Richard Strauss, all of whom found life so harsh as to require art's illusion to make it bearable...
...bulletins. Actually the conference is unique in that it tells what the editors (who sign the checks) want. Long-maned poets, arriving to discover how to make poetry pay, will be told that poetry never pays.* People who "think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil and a sheet of blank pa per. People who have written a lot, and badly, will be asked to stop writing. Those who have the "literary impulse" and show some signs of obeying that impulse successfully will be instructed how to obey it profitably...
...William B. Roulstone, President of the Central Park Association, was saying. Finally he reached, not for his score, but for a bronze desk-set offered by audiences, for a golden plaque, which members of his band had caused to be decorated with an engraving of their leader's face. "Only Coolidge, Harding, Lindbergh have had such portraits," said Mr. Roulstone. "The trio should be a quartet . . . gold to a Goldman...
...body than ever before on a stock Ford. Evidently, too, all four of the wire wheels were braked. But from the rear-yes? no? . . . No, there was no visible difference; a new Ford would be scarcely distinguishable from an old until you passed it. The highway had had its face lifted but would do its back hair as always. Acts. That motorists may be obliged to tread their accelerators stoutly to have a front view of any new Fords going their way, was suggested by a statement issued last week by Edsel B. Ford (president of the Ford Motor...