Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -Pauline Lord performs a miracle of acting as the poor waitress who married a farmer by mail and could not resist his farmhand. , WHAT PRICE GLORY?-The most enduring portrait of all the many painted of wine, women and war on the Western Front...
...resist a maid's "Come hither" stare...
...London, she explained in her inimitable way that she had come "just like that" (she imitated a butterfly with her fat fingers). "Indeed, how could she resist the temptation to sing to her carissimi Inglesi...
Captain S. F. Clark, coach of the University poloists declared last night that the tournament would undoubtedly be held this year even though no definite arrangements have been made. In his opinion college polo has been developed far enough to resist any attempts to destroy it. The sport in colleges is developing young players and furnishing men to compete on teams after they leave college. The U. S. P. A. realizes this, Captain Clark declared and so is anxious to have the intercollegiate tournament made an annual affair and placed on a definite basis. Captain Clark intends to enter...
...have a particular aversion to persons I who rush to the contributors' columns of periodicals with their complaints. I had hoped I always would be able to resist following them, but on reading your account of the Lewis-Munn wrestling match, I find myself slipping...