Word: halts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Action thenceforth is rapid, confusingly quick compared with the lagging up to that time. The director seemed as willing as the audience to call a halt. The cinema has been adapted from Zane Grey's piece identically named...
...week, another and still more bizarre account of how he and Captain Zappi left the Swedish scientist Dr. Finn Malmgren to die upon the Arctic ice (TIME, Aug. 6). Said Mariano: "When the unavoidable separation from Malmgren came and we dug him a trench we told him we would halt 100 yards away and wait there twenty-four hours in case he changed his mind and considered himself able to continue. We did this, and when we saw him, on one occasion, lift his head we shouted, 'Come on, Malmgren.' He shook his head, saying...
...say?as British Minister* when the World War broke out?that if all the churches in Christendom had said in 1914, 'Halt. This murder must not begin,' not a monarch nor minister in Christendom would have dared start...
Therefore, since the Council cannot act in matters of state if there be even one dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...
...complications of the cluttered plot were sometimes sufficient to halt the action of the play. Yet by virtue of its clear-eyed perception as well as its naivete, the play was convincing and funny. Moreover it was well acted, especially by Charles Eaton who played the mop-eared little brother to the heroine...