Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...removed the skepticism which must afflict audiences through their realization that the bell-like head-tones heard issuing from a ballroom could not possibly be produced by Garbo's deep voice. It is a voice fascinating for its monotony which, though natural to Garbo, seems deliberately assumed to sustain the intense mood of the story. She loves the clergyman but gives him up because she feels that it would be absurd to marry him. Garbo has been in better stories but none that suited better her disturbing, almost legendary fascination. Her acting confirms her position as the most important...
Taxpayers v. Soldiers. With a veto certain. Speaker Longworth began to scurry about the House corridors lining up Republican votes to sustain it. Said he to one and all: "There are more taxpayers than soldiers.'' Representative Johnson, chairman of the House Veterans' Committee, hastily whipped together a substitute pension bill which Speaker Longworth said would be passed "within an hour." Declared the House Republican leaders jointly: "There will be no adjournment of the Congress until final enactment of veterans' legislation...
...occasion to insist on the Bishop testifying. The investigation is aimed at lobbying and not political matters. As he came at his own request, if he did not care to answer questions, he should be excused." Later Senator Caraway, shamefaced, left-about-faced: "I do not sustain Bishop Cannon for snapping his fingers at the Committee. A witness who goes before the committee withdraws at his own peril...
...them were in full accord with Borough President Henry Hesterberg of Brooklyn, who in his opening address made the forthright comment: "This to my mind is a very great proposition." But fine, frequent and varied as are its temporary exhibits, it is Brooklyn Museum's permanent collections which sustain its reputation. Among these: the Avery collection of Chinese cloissonne; a collection of Xapoleana unsurpassed in the U. S., donated by the late Dean Marion Reilly of Bryn Mawr College: the American rooms, 22 excellent native interiors faithfully rebuilt in the museum; a modern watercolor collection scarcely to be equalled...
...drugstore customers realize that their purchases of 15?, 25? and 50? packets of proprietary medicines sustain a half-billion-dollar industry. The stock value of just one of the eight big ones, Drug, Inc., last week was a quarter-billion...