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Word: facing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the Army match the Crimson horsemen will face Yale on the following Saturday, May 25. The next game will come on June 22 when the Harvard players enter the Intercollegiates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON POLO TEAM TO PLAY ARMY ON SATURDAY | 5/16/1929 | See Source »

Outwardly he was always brusque and repellent. A certain savagery marked his very face. He once observed that, in introducing a character, Homer is apt to draw attention to the eye. Certainly in himself this was the feature which first attracted notice; for his eye had uncommon alertness and intelligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...pity that no report of it hangs in Memorial Hall. But he would never allow a portrait of himself to be drawn. Into his personality strangers must not intrude. Venturing once to try for memoranda of his face, I took an artist to his room. The courtesy of Sophocles was too stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. When my frustrated friend had departed, Sophocles told me, though without direct reproach, of two sketches which had before been surreptiously made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...clenched my hands and tried not to scream. ... I opened my eyes, and I saw. It was his [the doctor's] face. Think of it! Two eyes and a nose and a mouth, just as I had felt them all these years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First Sight | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...been notoriously sparse and cool. During the 1927 Christmas season, one of the two legitimate theatres in St. Louis harbored Abie's Irish Rose. The other one was empty. But this summer St. Louis feet will tap to the rollicking rhythms of several syncopated operettas, including Rainbow, Funny Face, The Five O'Clock Girl, Sally, Peggy Ann, Tell Me More, Here's Howe. These diversions, all but two of them new to St. Louis, will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: In St. Louis | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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