Word: affected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part fortunate in their cast. But there is slight difference of opinion among the players. Some of them have obviously been brought up in the tradition in which Mr. Shakespeare was brought up, and play it with the gestures which distinguish that famous Shakespearean actor, Mr. Jewett, while others affect the musical comedy manner, and with a good deal of success. The chorus men wear their pink and white complexions becomingly, but their dancing does not compare with that of the girls, who recall many another road company Boston has known...
...heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...
...five and wife of my able vice president, John T. Cassidy, is a businesswoman. Her company 'Clio et Claire' does a nice business in cosmetics. Last week I was said to have chuckled when she announced: 'It is ridiculous to say that women must always affect the same makeup. With some frocks, for example, red lips and pale cheeks only clash. Why shouldn't women paint their lips green? Or blue...
...effect of its decision. Much unwarranted criticism of the courts is apt to be the result. The effect of Professor Frankfurter's study from the standpoint of the lawyer is to focus attention on the practically unlimited discretion of the trial judge in Massachusetts on matters which vitally affect the lives of accused persons and the fairness and adequacy of the administration of justice
...unpractical--despite his appreciation of genuine scientific achievement--in his dismissal of Upton Sinclair's "Industrial Republic" as too utilitarian. For transcendentalism alone as a living force is found wanting by the same canons with which Mr. Mumford condemned the humanism of the Renaissance--it failed to affect the great mass of the people. Even a utilitarian remedy for the most pressing evils might provide the eventual access to the road to the earthly paradise...