Word: vied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful humorous artist or caricaturist. To distort the human figure it is first necessary to know how to draw it normally. Look at the work of Frank Reynolds or Ernest Shepard of "Funch" and also cast a lingering glance upon the efforts of Fournier and Brunner in "La Vie Parisienne...
...vespers' chant rose majestic and sonorous. Notre Dame seemed every moment less a church of man, and more the infinite, spacious House of God. Then Paul Claudel was suddenly upon his knees. . . . "Alors se produisit," he has said, "I'événement qui domine tout ana vie. This, of all my life, was the dominant moment. My heart was touched. Je crus-I believed! . . . Blinding, ineffable, had come the revelation. I had realized the heart-rending innocence, the eternal childhood...
Five dual meets have been tentatively scheduled prior to the semi-finals of the Northern Division of the Fencing League at New Haven on March 18 and 19, when the University will vie with Columbia, Dartmouth, M. I. T. and Yale for the right to journey to the finals of the Intercollegiate League in New York on April...
...individual stars who will vie for the Intercollegiate prize at Van Cortlandt Park are Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, Captain M. L. Smith of Yale, J. C. Loucks of Syracuse, W. J. Cox of Penn State, Captain Karl Auer of Dartmouth, Horace Betson of Cornell, Forrest Taylor of Maine, and Russell Payne of Pennsylvania. They comprise one of the greatest collections of cross country luminaries ever to clash on one course...
From this curtain raiser to the very end of the play, magnificent and gruous scenes follow one another in lightening-like procession. Before, Cecil B. DcMille backdrops, two caoruses heavies and half-points, vie with one another. The little girls dance remarkably, and twice on Monday night succeeded in stopping the show. They are perfectly instructed, and steps which would seem banal if performed in solo seem unbeatable when drummed out in chorus. Their larger sisters make up in voice for their lack of beauty. George Jean Nathan will never award any pretzels to these frauds for looks, but despite...