Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural conclusion, but in spite of the frequent explosions of applause Miss Little and her confreres managed to bring the performance to a much unwanted finale. Although the review has not yet reached a smooth perfection, there is every indication that the "Third Little Show" will follow the primrose path of "The Second Little Show" with the everlasting bonfire a long...
John Ruskin once said that the Ideal Woman did not find roses in her path, she left them there. The fact that Elisabeth Mills found her path rose-strewn only aided her to leave many more behind. The roses she found were big round silver ones which her father, Darius Ogden Mills, reached down and plucked from the depths of the Comstock Lode. Darius Ogden Mills left his bank clerking job in Buffalo, N. Y., in the frantic year 1849, went to California. By the time his daughter Elisabeth was born in New York nine years later, he and John...
...kill either people I hated, or people I loved. I killed whoever crossed my path at the moment my urge for murder took hold...
...Baker presented a strange mixture of qualities. Possessed of a personality and will so compelling that few ventured to stand in his path, he was also fortunate enough to have a degree of foresight, judgment, and daring rarely rivalled in the financial history of this country. In his business relations he exhibited a hardness which was difficult to reconcile with the kindly consideration which he always displayed toward his personal friends. Over them he exercised an almost magical spell, and there were few who knew him well who did not love him. His manner in private life was smoothly, charming...
...provides about as effective a clash as the other. Both suffer from a lack of common grounds. In debating it is the prerogative of the affirmative to set the issues, and the duty of the negative to follow them. The memorized speech can follow nothing but its predestined path, no matter how little it may bear on the points in dispute...