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...White Sister. Lillian Gish can unquestionably wring more salt water out of the American population than any other cinema actress. There is something about her hopeless wistfulness that squeezes sobs from the coldest heart. She brings this something with her in the present picture. For a good cry?go to The White Sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 17, 1923 | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...charge of the anthracite coal strike, called to wring a new contract from the operators, which he carried to a successful conclusion, after the personal intervention of President Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: President Lewis | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...missionary there under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was one of the principal witnesses before King Leopold's Commission of Inquiry. On this occasion he testified regarding the horrible atrocities perpetrated by the Belgian government to wring money from the natives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Congo Reform Movement" | 2/27/1908 | See Source »

...limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which we doubt not sounds as dull in his warn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Fuller Criticises Lampoon | 12/21/1907 | See Source »

...women wring their hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFF PROVINCETOWN. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

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