Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gherardo, the poor Parman is a religious rebel who gives all his money to the poor and dares combat with the Church of Rome. He is not, however, entirely a saint. His lusts lead him to betray a sympathetic virgin who later returns to help him conduct his holy reforms. Gherardo, veering like a mediaeval Elmer Gantry between his passion for this girl and his passion for reform, is led at last to betray his followers in an effort to secure her release from jail. In this effort he fails. He watches her being strangled and is then carried...
...France and England should have marched on Berlin, and the conquered populations should have been forced to sacrifice their production for a century, if necessary, in order to indemnify the victors. This is what Germany did in 1870, and she was quite right. The Allies, instead, allowed America to betray them in 1918, and they were quite wrong...
...long can the candle of genius be hidden under a bushel; the recognizing world catches errant gleams that betray closeted flame, and cries out to know more of the modest great. This has, unfortunately not been true with the Reverend Paul Sterling, MeIrose clergyman who has just revealed himself as the prime mover in Boston's recent campaign of book censorship. In this instance Cinderella herself has been obliged to strike the hour of unmasking...
...Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged the scope of the camera beyond that of the human eye. His The Birth of a Nation was perhaps the first picture which approached the potentialities of the cinema. Others, a list which betray D. W. Griffith's highly disputable flair for titles, are: Hearts of the World; Broken Blossoms; Orphans of the Storm; America. Beau Sabreur. Two novels, both best sellers, both written by Captain Percival Christopher Wren, both somewhat similar in title, have been translated into cinema by the Paramount...
...reports in the paper of last Sunday's sermons betray an almost complete devotion to denunciation. Spiritual affairs were neglected for exaggerated portrayals of the menace of companionate marriage, agnosticism, militarism, and the holding of opinions instead of convictions. The churches, like the Salvation Army, might possibly devote more time to the harmony and volume of their figurative bands, and thus there is a probability that the sound of whacking umbrellas might be drowned out completely...