Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary genius of his work was certainly a militant force in the partial defeat of these ghosts but in so struggling against concepts in a transitory form rather than basic realities he placed his work upon a transitory basis. We can still appreciate his skill, but we cannot hail him as of an age with us, Ibsen is now more of an historic study than an experience in the living theatre...
...York City, the presidency of Manila Railroad Co. and Manila Hotel, a trusteeship in the University of the Philippines and a membership in the Wack Wack Golf Club. He has also earned the esteem of thousands of Nationalist Filipinos who address him respectfully as "Don Manuel" and hail him as the Father of His Country...
Truckloads of steel-helmeted Egyptian police went to meet them. A hail of stones swept the British Consulate, poured into the ranks of the advancing police armed with shields and riot guns. The students took up fence-palings and clubs. The police fired over the students' heads, then into the mob, wounded...
...Juliet is vividly alive, glamourously beautiful, never anything more pretentious than a fourteen year old girl of Renaissance Verona. She reads her lines with a freshness and depth of understanding which invest the whole play with a breath-taking beauty. To one of America's most talented actresses, hail...
...Presidential tip is as good for a rousing market rally today as it was in 1928 when Calvin Coolidge undertook to boost securities. Now, as then, stockmarketeers made the most of it. And they were greatly aided by an accompanying hail of other good news, including a pickup in steel buying, active retail trade, a big bulge in carloadings (see p. 56), re-entry of the House of Morgan into the securities business (see below) and pegging of Canadian wheat at 87½¢ per bu. General Motors reported a striking sales gain in August over July. General Electric boosted...