Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concluding, she said that psychology was not harming mankind, but was performing a tremendous service. "The psychologist gives man power to cope with the spiritual world, as science has given it to the physical universe. Man should find truth and not avoid it, because he does not dare to face it. Knowledge alone is power, and truth alone can make us free...
...nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved his problem by appearing in impeccable full dress at the head of irresistible forces of police and beseeching M. Daudet "in the name of France" to give himself up. Thus, Daudet could and did surrender without losing face...
...their ships. Anyone who saw him walking down Broad Street would realize immediately that such dignity and serene confidence could belong only to a bank policeman or its director. The picture of Myron Taylor that was published in news-sheets last week seemed to belong between the two older faces that appeared at the same time. Supported by the crisp ruff of a wing tipped collar, severe, shrewd, plain and kindly, it was a face easily recognized and remembered as a symbol of dependability, of integrity...
Gershwin then said that "Rosalie" was the third show he had written this season. "It was composed in six days," he said, "because I was working on "funny Face, too. That's why we are fixing up Rosalie now. Before the opening night in New York six new songs will have been inserted...
...turned his great, handsome face, with the magnificent chin that has just begun to gray a little, toward the window, but not before I had seen a flickering shadow of disillusionment cross it. Or could one call that shadow disillusionment...