Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oberammergau will break a tradition of centuries. One hundred of the principal members of the cast of the Passion Play have signed a contract to appear in America. They are rehearsing now, and with their salaries they keep their village from starvation. The Passion Play last summer was an utter failure financially...
...thinkers is dangerous, if not a little absurd. He objects, rightly enough, to sentimental reasoning and arguments not based on facts; but he goes farther and demands that a man should either have a thorough opinion reasoned from complete knowledge, or no opinion at all. If he is to utter a view on the World Court, for example, he must be as wise as the Senate, or he must be silent...
...final dash for the summit Mr. Mallory and two other succeeded in reaching a spot 1700 feet from the summit. There a solid wall of ice stretched upward to the peak. Footholds were cut in this, in a last desperate effort to complete the journey. However utter exhaustion compelled a hasty retreat...
...Countless years ago men began to utter disciplined sounds--to talk; long afterwards they began to fashion crude figures on stone or leather or papyrus--to write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter...
...here Mr. Oenslager had incorporated the most modern of ideas with a simplicity that was extremely charming. Man,--now grown to man's estate and married--is undergoing the pangs of poverty, and the visit to his humble quarters by kinsfolk seems to establish more clearly his state of utter want. In the part that follows, J. J. Collier and Miss Secoy did a really splendid piece of acting. Andreyev has unfettered his wings of imagination and let them soar at will. The ecstasy, the pathos, the stabbing joy of building castles in the air, or high above a fjord...