Word: toward
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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...
Those who have dabbled in touch football and other forms of intramural sport will welcome the step toward organization of this branch of athletics, which will be taken with the meeting of the Intramural Sports Council today. The lack of the system and of the stability imparted by the existence and activity of a governing body has been the most salient feature of the essays made in the field of inter club competition at Harvard...
...members of the course is hardly to be expected. In short, it is a half course covering what could be a distinctly interesting field of human knowledge, in a most decidedly uninteresting way. This being the case, concentration in Anthropology or the search for a relatively easy half point toward the degree are the only plausible reasons for taking the course...
...would have recognized as Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart. A city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful as the mountains of the moon. On the way he stops to pick up a hoydenish little mountain girl. With her he descends upon the city of the miracle, capturing it, in the Fairbanks manner, unassisted. Treachery and leprosy combine to despoil...
...simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity. Opera of any appreciable allegorical content are usually picked up and laid aside at random. Not so with Juggler's Kiss. It is to be read at one sitting. For Mr. Komroff is above all things a gorgeous storyteller. This power...