Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beirut. Sir Henry reached north for Beirut (where St. George reportedly slew his dragon) with two columns. As his reach continued, the columns joined at Tyre, jabbed for three days at Sidon...
...would prefer, however, to reach success via the stage. Her experience behind the footlights started in 1937 when she played summer stock in Skowhegan, Maine; this was her first and only visit to New England, and she enjoyed it very much. Since then she has toured with "You Can't Take It With You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and filled in the rest of her time with two "quick flops" on Broadway, which, as she very justly observes, "weren't my fault, of course...
...honorary degree," for any remarks which were made by speakers at this meeting regarding Lord Halifax the sponsors of the meeting cannot, of course, be responsible, I wish to add that Professor Furry and Mr. Raymond Dennett, the only other sponsors whom I have been able to reach, concur with me in this statement. Frederick Merk, Professor of History...
Wagner. "With Wagner we . . . reach an uncertain twilight region - part biological, part social, and part . . . esthetic. But the pattern is the same. Art has its evolution, which follows the development of races and nations, the progress of culture ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of sociological import. The Ring [of the Nibelungs] accordingly celebrates in turn the superman-to-be, the fall of the old gods through the curse of gold, and the triumph of Germanism, in one long tale of blood, lust and deceit. . . . History is a sieve that works, and the residue...
This interpretation was obviously out of reach of the modulated 1941 counterpart of Valentino-downy, dark-eyed Tyrone Power. In Producer Darryl Zanuck's expensive, Technicolored remake of Blood and Sand, nice Mr. Power acts as if he were just acting. He is. Tyrone Power, as many a U.S. female knows, is cute. Neither Juan Gallardo nor Rudolph Valentino nor any other Latin male was ever cute...