Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the League of Nations has recently terminated the regimes of both High Commissioners (TIME, June 21 and July 5), and accorded to each warm, pulse-tingling laudation, the names of Mynheer Alfred Zimmermann and Mr. Jeremiah Smith have loomed afresh in capitals...
...warns me. My blood speaks! I must listen to my blood." Thus Signor Mussolini is wont to explain the promptings of his extraordinary political intuition- promptings which he has ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice...
...Booth's feeling against Lincoln Sr. Rather the reverse: that the son of Lincoln was the rival Booth could least brook. Such a suggestion might not be far-fetched in view of Booth's capacity for insensate passion, but it would be cruel now, and futile, to dig sorrow afresh from its burial under the years...
Sylvia appears in the camp to torture him afresh. Her incredible malice brings about a bedroom scene where he strikes a drunken general in pajamas. For the troops' morale he must be removed, but still he will not clear his name, will not "blab." "There used to be," he tells his own superior, an old friend, "in families of position, a certain ... on the part of the man ... a certain . . . call it parade...
...Great God Brown. Eugene O'Neill's new play will precipitate afresh and with renewed violence the confabulations about his pre-eminence among U. S. playwrights, the reason being that his characters have been chosen right at the theatre's ticket-window instead of, as is O'Neill's custom, out of a primitive and hence foreign environment like a barge, a jungle, a boulder-strewn backwoods farm. He has reached into "ordinary" people's lives under "commonplace" circumstances and handled them with an intensity that seems deeper-rooted, more inarticulate, more confusing than...