Word: surmount
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welcomed to the Met as a "curvaceous and arresting Salome" by the Met's onetime No. 1 glamor girl, retired Geraldine Farrar, 67. In a glowing fan letter to the New York Times, Miss Farrar took approving note of "such physical attributes as allow this singer to surmount. . . the terrific vocal demands . . ." She added pointedly: "No voice comes to full-bodied glory on a Hollywood diet, nor are lean thighs the safe caryatids upon which to rear the edifice of enduring and beautiful singing...
After conferring with Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Dulles, Dewey issued a formal statement that carried the weight of G.O.P. policy. Said he: "The present duty of Americans is not to be divided by past lapses, but to unite to surmount present dangers ... In Berlin, we must not surrender our rights under duress...
Christmas Eve (Boqeous; United Artists), a less appetizing holiday confection, concerns an eccentric old gotrocks (Ann Harding) and her far-flung adopted sons (George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott). They surmount the world, the flesh and the devil to reach her side on Christmas Eve-just in time to save her from the booby hatch for spending $500,000 on 500,000 dead rats. Producer Benedict Bogeaus spent considerably more on this dead...
...armies had given him the city of Antung. His people paraded, ate "longevity noodles," displayed a million photographs and set off a billion firecrackers. In recently starving Hunan Province, his statue would soon surmount a mountain peak. Over Nanking, formations of Chinese airforce planes spelled out "six ten longevity...
...effort it may make to cooperate with the Protestants ... in even so vast a cause.... Its solemn claim to be the exclusive and infallible authority in all things spiritual ... [is] a hurdle which only a holy passion for the security of the world can enable it to surmount...