Word: forcefullness
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To meet the bachelor President of France (Gaston Doumergue has no "official hostess") at the U. S. Embassy in Paris last week. Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Evans Edge assembled not the impotent dukes and counts of the beau monde but aristocrats of another sort, people whose names stand in France...
Ever since the forceful, forbidding bas-relief of Rima- was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin at Hyde Park in 1925, the work of Jacob Epstein, U. S.-born, London-dwelling Jewish sculptor, has been big news to the British Press, bitterly attacked by the conservative, enthusiastically praised by enemies of prettiness...
The actions of three public spirited citizens and of Governor Ely both deserve to be singled out for commendation from the whirl of a typical communistic demonstration followed by customary police procedure. It is impossible to pass fair judgment on the question of violent propaganda; agitation undoubtedly keeps the vital...
The Author. Ben Hecht writes with violence but without bad temper. Consequently his forceful delineations of character carry weight even when they are brutally offensive. Jo Boshere will leave few readers without some fellow-feeling. Hecht's dialog is nearer real life than most authors dare go. Ben Hecht...
As a roving longshoreman, gold miner and fisherman in British Columbia and Alaska, Governor Olson had studied law by correspondence, returned to Minneapolis in 1915 to be admitted to the bar, to marry and to become county attorney. In 1927 his drive against city graft won him fame. A forceful...