Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House prepared to take up and pass this legislation in its customary jig time...
...more of those English officers torn between love and patriotism goes back to his regiment on New Year's Eve a gentleman and a major. Victor McLaglen's inexperience as an interpreter of erotic reactions is made up for by Myrna Loy and by photography of the Khyber Pass and its adjacent wastes that is much too good for the story. Best shot: The tribesmen mobilizing...
...rise of the hand of policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass or otherwise disrespect...
...Leviathan on its next westward crossing of the Atlantic will experiment with an analogous device to pick up and despatch mail to shore. On a new platform above the poop deck a sack of mail will be laid. A plane with a steel ball hanging by a rope will pass over the ship, dragging the ball across the platform. The ball will engage the sack, which the plane will draw into its fuselage, as she flies to land...
...What is so terrible about it?" expostulates her mother. "The shore is wide enough for us to pass by her. . . . You are already jealous of Madame Grill. But, my dear Bella, your husband is after all not a man of that sort. . . . You are the Baroness von Buttlär and I am the widow of General von Palikow. Well, doesn't that mean that we are two fortresses to which people who don't belong to us have no entree? . . . We simply issue a decree?and Madame Grill ceases to exist...