Word: makeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sentimentality; even the saintly figure of Father Keegan in that play occasionally arouses shyness. In St. Joan the pathos is commonplace and the mysticism embarrassing. Shaw hardly goes deeper than the sentiment-pure though it is with the curious Irish purity-of the philanderer; and philanderers of either sex make the mistake of crediting the opposite sex with their own characteristics. Shaw's lovers do not test each other's hearts, but only their wills. They are adroit in the campaigns worked up by the mental affections; they are trained in that military sense of love one sees...
During her years (1931-45) as Conservative M.P. for Wallsend, Northumberland, Miss Irene Ward found it necessary to make many trips to London. She used to leave the sleeper at King's Cross Station and go straight to the railways-owned Great Northern Hotel for a morning bath and breakfast. Then, like a wet towel flung in her Tory face, came the Socialist government and its nationalization of railways and railway hotels...
...Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave's refusal to make political distinctions...
...typical, well-to-do community, with handsome houses .set off by spacious lawns from the tree-lined streets. Its civic boosters proudly call it "the richest square mile of residential area in Canada." The village has also become the chief residential zone of prosperous Toronto Jews, who today make up 40% of its 18,-ooo inhabitants. There has been little anti-Semitic friction in Forest Hill, however; the village long has been proud of that...
...member insisted that the whole experiment was "not segregation but congregation-of friends." Said Board Chairman Harold Rogers: "Some people thought we were grouping according to religion. Broadly speaking, I suppose we are. but that is secondary. Our main purpose was to evolve some sort of plan which would make everyone happy...