Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began by telling his audience that he did not intend to make a formal speech. "I want to make you thoughtful about the care of your health. Begin inquiring as to what way leads to old age: you'll have to fight to reach...
...Belgium are 90% in favor of Cardinal Mercier's inscription. Students of the University, even the workers who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If 70 million Germans wept for 1,000 years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France.' I shall fight to ensure the perpetuation of the inscription...
Asked what he would do if the University of Louvain appealed, Architect Warren drew down his beetling brows and roared: "Carry the suit to the highest court! Fight to a finish...
...sons shed glorious fame And win--or losing win--the fight...
After three weeks of the says-you-says-ME policy Keith's offers a most refreshing antithesis in "The Four Devils". This picture takes the not too hackneyed subject of the circus as its theme. Murnau, director of "Sunrise", here too handles distinctively even such commonplaces as a fight by means of skillful photography; and his shots of the naturally more promising trapeze acts are excellent. For about two-thirds of the film the emotional moments are smoothly presented, with the gaps in slow-moving scenes filled in by the musical accompaniment; but as soon as the dialogue begins...