Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Face of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary...
...perplexed with imminent scandals, reached one of its peaks in the second act. She had just been told that the officer with whom her daughter had been having a flirtation was really a crook called Myrovsky. The effect of this information the princess showed, less by twitchings of her face than by the expression of her knee, which trembled while she sat still in a chair...
...cinemansions of the west, to the Civic Repertory Theatre in Eva LeGallienne's sensitive if not inspired production of Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard is not especially adaptable to translation; its sly and sad description of improvident aristocracy, vaguely cheerful in the face of ruin, is a little forlorn in a strange tongue and a new country, as its people are forlorn in the airy chaos of change. The Civic Repertory did far better with the play than James B. Fagan did last spring and Nazimova played beautifully as Madame Ravensky...
...studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above the heckling din. Only when she said, "Let us pray," did the studentry bow their heads in real or simulated reverence. When the prayer came to Amen the divine interlude ended: smoke was blown in the McPherson's face and to it was offered many a beer...
...Dartmouth cross country teams met defeat yesterday at the hands of the University and 1932 harriers in the face of icy winds which chilled the thinly club athletes to the marrow...