Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oppressed by longings for the life of the outside world the nun succumb to temptation and flees with the young Knight. The Madonna's image then comes to life and takes the place...
Said apostles of Mr. Haldeman-Julius: "Some publishers, with a less high standard than that of Mr. Haldeman-Julius, might succumb to the more or less persistent supplications of the public. But not Mr. Haldeman-Julius! It is unthinkable...
Said apostles of Mr. Haldeman-Julius: "Some publishers, with a less high standard than that of Mr. Haldeman-Julius, might succumb to the more or less persistent supplications of the public. But not Mr. Haldeman-Julius! It is unthinkable...
Football, baseball, and rowing succumb alike to the hordes that swarm the links and courts. Tennis is revealed to be the favorite sport of 23 per cent of the class, topping by a comfortable margin football, which is favored by only 11 per cent. Football is also superseded in popularity by golf, which, favored by 12 per cent, triumphs by the narrow margin of one point...
...Denial. Claire Windsor is the latest to succumb to the current screen fashion of portraying, in one film, a young girl in her teens, and a woman of 45, thus putting screen art above mere good looks. In her latter manifestation, she dreams herself back to her girlhood stifled by her mother-living again the romance of the Spanish-American War, learning not to cramp her own daughter's style of loving. Lewis Beach's stage play, The Square Peg, here transferred to the screen, has had some of the acrid tang carefully sponged...