Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Commission reconvenes, that afternoon, "there are speeches in reply to Litvinov. The Delegate of France, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, takes him softly and indulgently to task for disparaging and seeking to hurry the progress of the League toward Security: a goal deemed inseparable from Disarmament. "If our progress has been slow," says M. Paul-Boncour, "the real fault lies in a lack of 'the international spirit' throughout the World, which no one can remedy...
...middle of the champagne bottle they are quietly but firmly intoxicated; at the curtain they are swirling drunk. Mr. Coward accomplishes this genteel disintegration with impudent realism. Estelle Winwood encourages his impudence with important blurts and wabbles, including the removal of her shoes. To Fay Bainter, is allotted the task of growing more dignified and lady like with every gulp. All this consumes the second act. A first tells how these impeccable and bosom friends had girlish love affairs with the same man. The man is coming back, also their husbands. In the third act they have headaches. Solemn witnesses...
After having enjoyed a vivid report of the international white slave trade, which caused more than one delegate to lose his temper, the Council of the League is confronted with the equally spectacular but more difficult task of dealing with the dicator of Poland...
...elementary knowledge of Latin and German and the patience of Job are the prerequisites for this course. Grubbing for roots may be an enjoyable task in pleasant sunny garden, but it is less happy in the dusty purlieus of the English language, except for those who have a natural bent for grubbing...
...account of the Devonian Age less musty than it might else be. The laboratory work is eminently uninspiring. The section men, on the whole with Professor Mather's teaching ability and personal magnetism, make little or no attempt to raise the study of topographical maps from a boring task...