Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge has a great opportunity to play the role of a second emancipator?to free us from the horrors of war. Will he grasp the opportunity?" ? Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to President Wilson, at a conference of Democratic women at Asbury Park...
...Davies, Hearst cinema actress: "An actor in Yolando, my film now in the making, was thrown from a castle window into a moat. His hands caught in his flowing sleeves, he could not swim, he struggled, he was sinking. Instantly I threw him my scarf, but he could not grasp it. He was saved by a brave policeman...
...soldier. Baron Kato's life was identified with the Navy from an early age; at the time of the Russo-Japanese War he was 43. He was known to be a competent officer in a wide sense of the term; his painstaking knowledge gave him an uncanny grasp of naval affairs and won him the position of Chief of Staff to Admiral Togo, famed idol. From then on his success was assured...
...melodrama is to be applauded. No one likes to see melodrama better than do I; but it must be a pleasure to be able to portray life as it really is and make it vitally interesting. Many a man can visualize a heroine saved from a villain's grasp by the heroic pistol point; but only the rare genius can make the purchase of a new golf course poignant...
...Critics. The New York Times : "The Outline is strongly conceived, with an imaginative historic grasp...