Word: perform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several reels the picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest Torrence and Ricardo Cortez perform acceptably. Betty Compson, the love interest, is rather less effective...
...although-after handing over his business to his son, he found idleness so little to his taste that he returned as Secretary of his son's company, The Cleveland Plain Dealer found his life significant for a simple social courtesy which, long ago, he was called upon to perform. "MARK HANNA'S BEST MAN DIES," was the ironic headline of his obituary...
...house fills, glitters, every glitter caught and sifted, anatomized, dissected by high power opera glasses. Potent heads of distinguished families deign to perform the nod of grand grandees. Fierce caballeros bristle, melt before shrill senoritas, bristle again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
...famed Chalif Russian Normal School of Dancing, Manhattan ?an establishment which has proved as remunerative as a tract of Florida real estate. Chalif is plump, prosperous, vigorous. His face invariably displays the bland amiability of one who is pleasantly stupefied by recent exertion. Once Pavlowa saw him perform...
...When the Progressive voters of Wisconsin perform the solemn duty of choosing a candidate to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. LaFollette I would ask them to think not only of unswerving devotion to the cause, capacity and fitness, but also of the iron resolution, enthusiasm and faith necessary to carry on the work he has laid down...