Word: devoide
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...developed a powerful and selfish love for his daughter and his every effort is directed toward keeping her for himself. The girl, excellently portrayed by Julie Hayden, has grown up in the barren solitude of the plains, and until the strange young man appears, she seems mechanical and devoid of emotion. Her casual meeting with the traveler arouses all her suppressed feelings, and the climax is reached when the father discovers the two together. The girl turns against her father, and he dies. The young man goes on his way, and she is now completely forsaken. Classic in its simplicity...
...East. Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. He speaks many languages fluently, some like a native. (In Albania his glibness brought him under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid of history. . . ." Other hooks: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, Dreamy Rivers (TIME...
...representatives, respectively. Three other schools, whose associations with Harvard are relatively brief because they were established only a century or more ago, also sent goodly delegations: Phillips Exeter, 95; Phillips Andover, 51; and Milton Academy, 39. Americans who regard their country as a crude, vulgar place, devoid of civilized traditions, may be interested in these figures. They suggest a long procession of young men, following in the steps of their fathers and grandfathers...
Only a few weeks after the bombardment of the Viennese Karl Marxhof, the Labor party of Britain has gained control of London and with a promptness devoid of any sense of the ironic, has outlined a huge new plan for the construction of model apartment houses for the city's working class. That these schemes for slum-clearance and better housing are desirable in themselves is, I think, undeniable. Even the Conservatives recognize this, cautiously. But is the Labor party really cognizant of the implications of this project? Judging from the political naivete it has shown in the past...
...economic plight of Austria and Hungary by the formation of more favorable trade relations with Italy; no other power, it seems, is willing to take this step which is necessary if Austrian independence is to be maintained; hence Italy has nobly and altruistically come to the rescue quite devoid of any nordid ambitions. That this is pure buncombe it is hardly necessary to point out. What has happened is simply that Mussolini has seen that this is the opportunity of a lifetime to institute a defensive alliance with Austria and Hungary, that will counterbalance the French bloc formed...