Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereafter, the picture jumps to its task, reveals itself as one of the greatest of the camera spectacles. Carcassonne was borrowed by the Government to show the seige of the medieval town. If you look in your histories, you will find the tale?how Jean Hachette, Jeanne d'Arc of the days of Louis XI, saved the seige of Beauvais. Mingled in the yarn is a startling wolf attack. All the players were French, many of them borrowed from the Odeon and Comedie. Some of the technique was borrowed from the U. S. The wolves were borrowed from Russia. From...
...Significance. Miss Lowell has written a definitive biography, a task in which many famed and able gentry* have failed. Great industry, great acumen, an unmatched wealth of material?these might have enabled a writer of less brilliance than Miss Lowell to compile a biography equally meticulous. But the service she does Keats is one which involves but does not depend upon any new documents, acumen or industry; it is a service of psychological interpretation which Miss Lowell is peculiarly fitted to give, and which may well become the first canon of a new technic in biographic criticism...
...dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment. Not so. For this task of writing, she trains much as an athlete trains for a race. Rain or shine, she walks several miles each day. Several times a week, she swims. She does not do things by halves. When she decided that swimming was an excellent form of exercise for a woman living...
...Mark Sullivan sees in the salary increase a problem of far greater moment than a mere padding of purses. No one who knew the circumstances, he feels, would be against the measure. To him the salary bill reflects a grave and pressing situation. The Congressman today faces a task impossible of accomplishment: combining the duties of lawmaking and keeping the good will of his constituents. The latter phase of his task has since the war become an unbearable burden largely because of the demands of his ex-soldier constituents...
...present the Ring, In toto is a stupendous task even for a company of as vast resources as the Metropolitan. Director Gatti-Casazza had at hand a conductor who was capable and famed as an interpreter of Wagner, Mr. Artur Bodanzky; yet singers had to be enticed from here and there, choruses marshaled, great scenes built. These difficulties were mastered...