Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the philosophy of the 19th century British Army pervades Harvard. Lord Kitchener used to say that "we lose every battle but the last." Maybe Harvard plays that way, too, and runs through gallant Balaklava and ineffective Ladysmiths to win all glory in the Yale Game...
...might be that these people have nothing to say. But it's difficult to talk when you're smothered by such amateur symbolism as: "Oh Dante, I'm in hell" (Handy). Perhaps it's just a matter of getting the words out right and putting the paragraphs in order, techniques which can be acquired. Anyway, isn't it pretty to think...
...last night's denial, Jansen maintained that, "I would never say such things because I do not believe them." He said the HYRC is in a strong position...
...intrigues enable Graves to pepper his Islands with a host of hearty swashbucklers and infamous trollops, both professional and amateur. But sometimes they become so involved that even Graves is obliged to pause and scratch his head. Not for long. When this happens, he merely makes his narrator say: "Here my cart begins to stick ... so clogged . . . that I shall have a troublesome task to drive the wheels ... by heaving and hauling at the spokes." At this, of course, the friendly reader unconsciously puts his own shoulder to Author Graves's mired wheel-and before you can say "White...
...authority, I think I would say that Raymond Massey is giving the performance of his career in the title role. However, I have not seen Mr. Massey as Abraham Lincoln--his most famous role--so can only say that his other stage and screen characterizations have never impressed me as much as this one does. Playing two acts as an insane person is a trying test for any actor, and Mr. Massey does a really credible job of it. Miss Christians, as the wife, is hard, unrelenting, cruel; she acts the part with great subtlety and restraint. The excellence...