Word: hards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forever about Mr. Adams. At 62 he is greatest of U. S. amateur skippers. His eyes have wrinkles of sun and humor in their corners. His bald head and his face, with its Adams nose, beaked like a New England cliff, are tanned by salty weather. His hands are hard and veined; he wears no rings. His eyes are clear-water blue behind old-fashioned spectacles...
Suggesting that he might have been able to stop Stalin had he tried hard enough, Trotsky admits that he did not try his hardest. "I don't regret it," he concludes with a peculiar fatalism, "some victories lead to an impasse and some defeats open up new avenues...
...Girl on the Barge (Universal). A director with more interest in his material and with a better cast could have made a fine picture out of a hard-drinking, Scotch barge-captain's opposition to his daughter's romance with a deckhand. Indifferent, however, to life spun out in slow journeys up and down canals, or perhaps discouraged by Actress Sally O'Neill's coyness and Actor Malcolm MacGregor's self-possession, the producers of this picture combine mediocre photography with choppy storytelling. Worst shot: studio tank vexed by a wind-machine to indicate...
...creature, without ambition, almost without voice, whom Dubosc mercifully took to Paris. There she met Raymond who was young. They lived together, went to Tours together where Dubosc had arranged for Helma's apprenticeship. In Tours she was soon the prima donna, successful because she was healthy, worked hard, sang splendidly. John O'Brien, a visiting tenor, heard her, got her an engagement in Paris. Then came the problem of Raymond. A young singer at the Paris Opera should have no handicaps. Raymond, fortunately, understood this. Helma's next episode was Ravet...
...Thomas James Garland, Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Philadelphia, is a shrewd, hard worker, not without a sense of humor. Born in Ireland, he has lived in Pennsylvania more than a quarter-century. His long toil in the vineyard has thinned and dried him. His diocese is wealthy...