Word: arrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, Mr. Walsh of Montana presented a resolution authorizing the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the Aluminum Co. and report to the Senate whether legal action against it was warranted. He contended in a four-hour speech that the company was an arrant monopoly and that the Department of Justice had not properly investigated it. The minority of the Judiciary Committee supported the Department of Justice and opposed the proposed investigation on the ground that it was unconstitutional, saying...
...faithfully domestic, the second cruel and ecumenical. She followed the second to Europe, to the arms of many lovers, to the edge of the Seine. Then, in one of the prize "blah" endings, she came home-and her husband took her gently in his arms. One of the most arrant bits of tawdry of the season...
...million in itself. As campaign funds have run in the past, they have allowed an average expenditure of only about thirty cents to the voter. One can easily see, therefore, that the charges and counter-charges of both Republicans and Democrats upon this subject are for the most part arrant nonsense. And of Mr. Davis, who has seemed most disposed to press the subject, it would be well to ask, in the words of Professor Munro: "What do you think of an electorate that can be debauched at thirty cents a head...
...matter how often you have been to the cinemas, the incoherent multitude of these manufactured thrills serves a sure purpose. There is an inevitable, if factitious, reaction. Matt Moore and Patsy Ruth Miller assist materially in making the discerning spectators feel like fools in the dark for enjoying such arrant debris...
...effect of being just a little startled, or, perhaps, amused. In her sweetness of manner and speech, she displays none of the telling irony that is so often present in her books. In this she reminds me somewhat of Zona Gale, although May Sinclair is never betrayed into arrant sentimentalities as is too often Miss Gale...