Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loew's State--"The Torrent," by Dlasco Ibanez...
Loew's State--"The Torrent", by Blasco Ibanez: The State has been presenting some excellent pictures lately preceded by a pitiful attempt to ape the spectacular prologues at the Metropolitan...
...body opposes to a force acting upon it.' According to this definition, I have experienced no reactions to my reception at Harvard, for I certainly have not offered any opposition to the great Crimson force which has swept me along in its wide current, just as the turbulent mountain torrent whirls the tender sapling which has fallen into its power along the precipitous and oft-times fatal course...
...stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend...
...working at his Joan of Arc with a new secretary. Josephine brings the notes and manuscript, bundled in a sheet. Safety-pins undone, a torrent pours on the carpet-notebooks, envelopes, visiting cards, tradesmen's bills, timetables. "Burn it, tear it to pieces, blue pencil it. I don't want to look at it. . . . The first thing to do, I think, must be to divide up the work." In a score of inkwells scattered about, there is no ink. Josephine fills them with coffee. The pens scratch and splutter. Joan of Arc is postponed...