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Word: forest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subtitle announces that Destiny rules the lives of men, the beholder can be normally confident that a catastrophic coincidence is about to explode under the plot. In the present case it is a dynamited trestle over which two lovely young women in their nightgowns are fleeing from a forest fire. This forest fire is an excellent example of the thing the movies do exceptionally well. By itself it makes the picture eminently worth while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...Juliet, essayed the part of Melisande. She worked into it much of her own magic of voice and peculiar beauty. Yet there was little in the play which she could seize upon and call her own. She was a living figure lost in the brambles of a formless forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...lawyers in Congress", said Mr. Morrison yesterday in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Instead there should be about 200 labor men, 200 farmers, 100 business men, and minorities should be represented in proportion to their numbers." Mr. Morison himself has a bachelor of laws degree from the Lake Forest University Law School of Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOULD CHANGE LAWYERS IN CONGRESS FOR LABOR MEN, FARMERS, AND BUSINESS MEN | 12/13/1923 | See Source »

...three of these quarterbacks may be converted into halfbacks. Predergast of the Freshman team is an exceptionally fast back and a fine broken-field runner, but he is rather light for regular work. The Freshman line was not particularly strong, but it should furnish valuable replacement material. Forest, a very likely prospect at either center or tackle who was handicapped by injuries this fall, will probably win by regular place in the line. On present indications, Princeton should have an average line and a strong backfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATION HURTS YALE ELEVEN WORST | 12/12/1923 | See Source »

Even as a child he had strange adventures. Melusine, the immortal elvish sorceress, found him daydreaming one day, took him into the forest of Acaire. There was a high place in the middle of that wood. There Florian beheld Melior, asleep beneath a coverlet of violet wool in her father's bemagicked palace, and, having seen the perfect beauty of Melior, all great satisfaction in mortal women was spoiled for him. When he grew up, it is true, he married four times, lived a life of extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Place* | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

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