Word: dwelling
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Santa Fe Trail (Warner) is one of those vast panoramas of an epoch on whose details Hollywood cameras love to dwell. It begins in 1854 with graduation ceremonies at West Point, shows Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis addressing the graduating class. Then it moves west, watches seven of the Class of 1854 patrolling the vast reaches of the frontier from their post at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Among the seven are George Custer (Ronald Reagan), Phil Sheridan, James Longstreet. George Pickett and J. E. B. Stuart (Enrol Flynn), a handsome lad from Virginia...
...speaking before this audience in this place, I hardly need to press this point of view. The very history of the Mississippi Valley has proved that the people who dwell here in the South and West have been true exponents of American greatness. They recognized that the destiny of this country lay in an expanding vision. To that view we owe the way of life we now applaud...
McCoy often describes his program as a family affair, makes frequent mention of his relatives, who provide, he says, his listening audience. He also likes to dwell on the doings of his dog, sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly...
That and no more was his serious talk for the day, for "Mr." Russell, as he is addressed at Harvard, does not wish to dwell upon the subject of the war. And outside of the war, philosophy remained the only serious topic which could have been discussed. Philosophy was not discussed because Mr. Russell's philosophic realm is above the heads of the untutored proletariat...
...Midlands industries dwell in & along the Pennine Range, which are old Paleozoic uplands winding north & south, cut in two by a gap between Manchester and Leeds. Through this gap a canal was dug in the early 19th Century to connect the Mersey River with Aire River and the Humber Estuary which flows past Hull. In deep pockets on both flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke...