Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legitimate actors, who long have repeated the slur that the only two-syllable word that Hollywood knows how to pronounce is "fil-lum," may not forget their gibing and journey toward the west. Broadway producers, however, shrugged shoulders at the talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said Florenz Ziegfeld: "Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore...
...religious life of America must be saved from both the selfish and the sentimental, to the sacrificial. Very often a feeling of being sentimental toward Chris tian things covers a selfish attitude. We take it for granted that because we can feel, we have thereby the facts that under lie Christianity. The fact that underlies Christianity is the Cross ? that is the attitude we should take toward life...
Active practice will start immediately after the vacation and is to last for three weeks. Toward the end of this period, the squad will be divided into two groups and several full-time scrimmages area to be held. It is possible that a game will be arranged with one of the amateur teams that play in the vicinity of Boston...
...admission examination in Advanced German or French, known on College Board Examinations as German or French cp 4, be accepted in satisfaction of the reading knowledge requirements in those languages. This new ruling, following immediately upon the Faculty decision of last year to count advanced German or French toward entrance requirement, will permit students to pass off their requirement without having to take one of the special examinations or a half-course in either German or French...
Every few moments the guests sprang up, raised brimming glasses toward the white oriflamme of the Admiral's forked beard, and downed a deep health to the man whose famed policy of "sea-frightfulness" brought the U.S. into the War. Smiling pinkly behind his white whiskers, the Grand Admiral toped in response to each toast, declared at last to correspondents with perfect poise and pontifical gravity: "Despite the stark materialism of the present day, there still remains in Germany the germ of something that will get us out of the slough...