Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British people doubtless have faults. They are slow to realize danger and slower still to change their habits or methods even when the necessity for change stares them in the face. But they have one supreme virtue which you find in every class in the country. Let them once be convinced that their country is in danger and there is no sacrifice whether of conduct, money, health or even life itself which they will not make. . . . Their truest reward is that they have saved the country...
...original Feb. 6 rioting, but Le Journal charged, possibly with justice, that he and his Fourth International were responsible for the serious fighting around the Place de la République three days later. Trotsky's permission to remain in France was promptly cancelled, but police were slow in moving him from Barbizon...
...Lecture Hall. In the evenings he watches the first of the terrific little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters of Memorial Hall...
...other picture "Journal of a Crime" might well go without mention. Even the acting of Adolph Menjou cannot relieve the horror of Ruth Chatterton's meaning and groaning. Like an Alexandrine line "it drags its slow length along...
...where her husband died, had lived on the Gary estate at Jericho, L. I. When the apartment house was built, she returned to the address of many memories. She lived there quietly on her share of Judge Gary's $22,000,000 estate until, seven months ago, a slow, mortal illness laid...