Word: growing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Squire '18. It concerns the complications resulting from an agreement between two rulers of adjoining kingdoms, made upon the arrival of an heir in each of the royal families, and providing for the marriage of the children when they become of age. When the heirs in question grow up and manifest their own inclinations, amusing situations result...
...Lord. The play has to do with the working out of an agreement between two rulers of adjoining kingdoms, made upon the arrival of an heir in each of the royal families, providing for the marriage of their children when they become of age. When the heirs grow up and manifest in a decided manner their own inclinations, complications result which provide entertaining and highly amusing situations. The scene is laid somewhere in southern Europe...
There is in his violent excess a forcing of gesture and expression and in his voice a great deal of medieval exaggeration and burlesque. It is not fine art and to the intellectual it may grow the some, yet for the good of the world must never cease to make laugh...
...Pioneer is the one who has the backbone to grow up with a new country, or under new truth, or in a new profession. There are said to be 50 chances of success for every graduate of an American scientific department who is willing to live his career in the Orient, while there is, perhaps, only one out of 50 chances of greatness at home in some branch of industry which is already highly developed. China wakens and calls for an army of engineers. India, bewailing her illiteracy, calls for teachers. Aeronautics, wireless telegraphy, branches of social service and dozens...
...from the recruiting office on our own side of the Atlantic to the training camps of England, and thence to Gallipoli. We see the troops land and watch them fighting in the trenches and in "no-man's land," or trying to rest in their dug-outs. We grow to admire the British Tommy--Scotchman, Irishman, Newfoundlander, Canadian, Anzac or city-bred Londoner; and to respect the heathen Turk, his honest enemy...