Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-respecting crow would thrust-aside...
...which Charles Ray returns after a considerable absence. It isn't such remarkably good news at that, yet worth an idle hour or two. Mr. Ray disports himself as the watery youth whose mother makes him take tonics. He is snatched from her protecting clutches by circumstance and thrust into the midst of a dance hall and ranch-grabbing plot over the Mexican border. Fifty or 60 fights and a dynamited dam suffice to make...
...condition. He will go mad or die." A violent controversy has arisen over the acting of Warburton Gamble in the part of the father of the house. He made him a silly "showoff" type and as such drew a perfect picture. Objectors swear that there was a deeper thrust of idealistic sincerity to the part as Ibsen wrote it. If this is your reading of the play, Mr. Gamble was exceedingly inept. Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers and a newcomer named Helen Chandler are three perform ers that fully merit the oft misused word "scintillating." Such a combination of ideas...
...This fight thrust upon me is a plot of gangsters who are hired by a crafty bully of a leader who pays their meal checks and poets them at the door, and like yeggs they will come to the assistance of their leader when he has been floored. Conveniently appearing as helpers and then as peacemakers does not change the fact that the fight lasted twenty minutes. The gang blocked business; they did not pay and they got their instructions three times from the bully. Rum, Riot and Rebellion come nearer, but Anarchy and Chaos, Conspiracy are the words which...
From coping with the politicians of a state, its business men, its voters and its industrial and financial problems, he was thrust among the politicians of 48 states, among business men, engaged in tremendous operations; he was confronted with a public many times greater and more diverse and hidden from him as effectively as he was hidden from it, with industrial and financial problems of an altogether new order. There was no use pretending that his experience as Vice President had given him more than a kindergarten education for his new office and he needed a college degree at least...