Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foil Max, though miscast, lives down by capable work one of these curtain speeches about "illness. . .kind consented. . .learned the part overnight" that are such a ball-and-chain on amateurism, and which were burlesqued out of sight by Beatrice Herford in "Cock Robin". Minder Sewall as Mimi, Allegra Mackay as Bianca, and Louise Piper as Hilda lift the play, but nothing like the way Ruth Bond Hill does, as Lona who spends the night before Anatol's nuptials to another chez Anatol...
...hostile to the strangers who come to disturb their ancestral monuments. Add to this the tremendous difficulties of language and the state of affairs that enabled one civilization to remain practically unknown while another reached a high stage of development from totally different sources becomes less inexplicable than first sight would seem to indicate...
...rock while the older guide ascended to the next ledge or resting place. This he did by taking a turn of the line around a rock. In one instance while the leader was ascending, the rope kept paying out as it should and the guide disappeared out of sight above the two followers. Suddenly a large rock fell past them, clearing the face of the cliff by five or six feet and a moment later the unfortunate guide followed it. The turn of rope around the rock saved the others for the sharp edges of the rock severed the rope...
...sight of these terms, two outcries arose in the U. S. press. Dr. Cumberland's was the most imperialistic scheme yet devised, said one outcry; and what a blunder for the State Department to have published such a scheme just when Mr. Hoover was setting forth to dispel the U. S. Empire idea in Latin-America...
Given a counter-attack of power, the forwards smash through and bowl over every possible ball carrier in sight. Certainly, if they tip them all over, they are sure to get the one who has the ball. It isn't necessary to ferret out the secret of the hidden ball mystery to stop the play...