Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize goes back to her white engineer. With a price on his head Jamil returns to Cairo and just as Diana is about to become leashed forever to her beloved bridge-builder, she hears one of Jamil's Arab love songs which are pretty sour. She can't resist, and so she's off. The picture's like that...
...journalists-you always are targets for propaganda and rumors. I hope you will steadily resist both at this gathering." Peevishly he lectured them on optimism v. pessimism, practically warned them that if the world lost confidence in the Conference the blame would be on them...
...were real and so was the music that the New York Baby Orchestra made. Round Monte Collins was so young and unsteady that he kept falling off his chair. Little Marie ("Peewee") Jarecki, her hair frizzed and beribboned to suit the band's Lord Fauntleroy uniform, could not resist pulling her music rack to pieces and peeking through it at the audience. Curly-headed Ronald Liss had to leave the stage several times. But even the smallest players had learned enough about music to read notes with a fair degree of accuracy, to beat good time when their turns...
...crystallizing opinion against militarism is of great importance. No class of people is more aware of the obvious absurdity of military force, as an instrument of national policy, than students who are studying the effects of the last war. If they can train their emotional reactions sufficiently well to resist the "martial spirit" of some future date, they will do a tremendous service to mankind. Continuous pledges against war may not always be effectual, but they help...
...debate afterwards one Comrade Glava, representative of the Youth L e a g u e's newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravada, suggested that young workers who could not "resist the appeal of the bourgeois dance" confine their depravity to their homes. Finally the Moscow Conservatory's Music Professor Konnus pulled a long face and gravely approved Tsfasman's jazz...