Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep the turbulent tribesmen in order; needless to state, she has never succeeded in keeping Abd-el-Krim's hoodlums out of mischief. The French command may not send a shell, man, or plane across the border to destroy the Moorish bases, and it would be a very simple task, without violating the treaty agreement. Similarly, they can not blockade the Spanish ports of Morocco to prevent the steady traffic in arms by which the war is continued...
...James players. We were frankly prejudiced against Bernard Nedell when we found him cast for the role which belonged so logically to Houston Richards, but his performance was good enough to stifle our prejudice almost completely. It is one of his best characterizations. Miss Hitz has as her chief task to invent several different ways to show that she was frightened, and she fulfilled it admirably. Miss Layng was Mammy Pleasant to the life...
...Council of Nicaea in 325 which scotched "the most dreadful heresy which has ever threatened the Christian Church." This was the Arian heresy that Jesus Christ was not divine but merely the most perfect of God's creatures. In committing to Cardinal Tacci Porcelli the task of due celebration, Pope Piux XI wrote: '"What heartfelt interest We feel . . . can be easily understood by anyone with even moderate knowledge of ecclesiastical history. . . . And may God grant that this commemoration help indeed, as is Our heartfelt wish, to bring about that those Oriental peoples who ar still held...
...Pembroke of Boston, and of a railroad accident on the Boston to New York line--these are the first clues. The young wife has been deprived of her husband's company at the outset of her honeymoon, while Howell, pretending that he has a very important legal task to execute for a client in Cleveland, goes off to Boston to double-cross for an indiscreet friend. Mrs. Pembroke's son Ned, a hard-hearted Vera who has the usual incriminating letters and ideas of their proper...
...gives a finely poised performance. Her emotional moments seemed to me not so convincing as the more subtle and colder meets. But her playing throughout is unusually satisfying. Mr. Eduardo Sanchez, essentially a capable and vigorous actor, will not come off quite so well with an even more difficult task. His tendency is a trifle toward conscious poetry in the reading of the lines. Perhaps a simple reading would be more effective...