Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chaliapin plays a lone hand for his support is woefully weak; but this only serves to further emphasize the haunting beauty of his performance. Particularly are the other players impeded by their accents, which immediately put them out of character. Sancho Panza, in the person of George Robey, talks Cockney. And Carrasco with his Oxford lisp seems more the bespectacled grind than the heroic flance. These too noticeable incongruities make it difficult to imagine oneself in the Spain of the seventeenth century...
Half an hour after adjournment the Senate floor was empty except for some charwomen standing hesitantly around the walls and a lone Senator bent over his desk with head in arms. Lifting his head with a start, Leader Robinson glanced at the waiting charwomen, gathered up a bundle of papers, trudged wearily...
...handful of U. S. actresses have developed it to a high degree of art within its narrow limits. So far this season, Monologists Ruth Draper and Cornelia Otis Skinner have visited Broadway. Last week Manhattan theatregoers had a chance to witness the work of another capable theatrical lone wolf. She was Helen Howe...
...steady tempo of the game was occasionally broken by lone sallies up the ice which were responsible for all the eight scores. Crimson lines seemed to work smoothly with Dewey playing at right wing part of the time being the only change from the announced order. The Freshman line of last year appears to be playing efficiently again while Hallowell again spent two periods in the penalty box. Only six penalties were called during the whole contest, with those equally divided...
...Seven lone, snow-covered, cars testify to Lehman Hall's lack of wisdom and faulty economics in attempting to compete with other garages and parking spaces around the Square in supplying a haven for undergraduate autos. The principal reason for the economic failure of the parking space is the high rates which the Business Manager has instituted...