Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proof. The story tells the familiar bullring yarn-the matador who becomes famed and forgets his childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart saves his life in the final bullfight scene, wholly preposterously. All this Miss Dean whips into fresh and agile entertainment. There are not many actresses equipped for such a task. Forbidden Paradise. Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch, playing again on the same team that made Passion, are inevitably excellent. They chose a play called The Czarina in which Doris Keane starred not so long ago. The story is an amiable satire on the delights and drawbacks of Royalty...
...African slaves, his coworkers. Again he escaped to a ship in Norfolk Harbor, which proved unfortunately to be herself a slaver. The captain, happily, was his kinsman. Thus, David Scott rose to be a captain in the slave trade, rum and the force of habit hardening him to his task. Little by little he is brought in the end to see the light and realize the iniquitous character of his way of life. A da capo climax brings him back to the Virginia tobacco fields...
...criticism of Signor Croce is not warmed by the appreciative apathy of a Matthew Arnold. Like that of the pompous old English bigot, his criticism is the God-given and incontrovertible judgment of the dogmatist. He approaches his task with a theory to expound, and deaf to all confuting evidence, he picks and chooses and maintains his position...
...Russell H. Conwell, who remarks : "My task is not to write a biography, but to tell the story of my friend," is the author of the celebrated Acres of Diamonds, (TIME, Sept...
...busy week is ahead at Soldiers Field. The University squad is confronted by a gigantic task. It is, however, facing that task in an optimistic, albeit a deadly serious frame of mind. Yale's victory over the Tigers has helped the Harvard mental attitude rather than hurting it. The feeling among the players is that a close battle is certain, and that a Harvard victory is very, very far from impossible. "The policy framed by the maidenly fears of squeamish old tabby cats has reduced Boccaccio to the position in the undergraduate mind of a pleasantly indecent myth...