Word: fro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kindly people pulled his will to-&-fro, as death came closer to his infant daughter each day, Dentist Colan cried: "God gave her the eyes. Why take them from her?" But he finally sat with a jury of ten doctors and two rabbis, concurred with a decision to have the infant's left eye excised, an operation which was immediately performed...
...Hankow, delegates to the emergency session of the Kuomintang Party Congress, elated over recent Chinese successes, conferred on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the title "Tsung Tsai" of the Kuomintang. China's dominant party. "Tsung Tsai" has almost thesame meaning as "tsung Li," the Kuomanting title fro Dr. Sun Yatsen, which translates as Führer orDuce. However, Kuomintang delegates last week shied away from the dictatorial connotations of Chiang's new title, insisted that it merely meant "Leader of the Party...
...swung onto the table beside Meade and dangled her bare legs to and fro...
...know that the Emperor is hard and uncompromising not so much because of his thundering orations as because of the fact that Marie is so tender and generous in comparison. We know that he was ambitious, determined, and belligerent, not so much because he marches to and fro with his jaw protruding and his brow wrinkled in a perpetual scowl, as because Marie is by comparison so very peace-loving and kind. Mr. Boyer is the star because it is the character of Napoleon which is the center of interest; but it is the acting of Miss Garbo which makes...
...Manhattan's 69th Street last week, in a white-tiled studio which was once a garage, a rangy man who looks a little like Abraham Lincoln and more like the Pied Piper ran his fingers through his long grey hair, folded his arms, grinned, yelled, gestured, strode to & fro, swung his spectacles. On this occasion Photographer Edward Steichen was not engaged in conjuring life out of some apathetic sitter. He was helping several assistants dismantle his studio for good. As of Jan. 1, 1938, Edward Steichen was through with commercial photography...