Word: baring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst obtained some 200 delegates at the Democratic National Convention in 1904, but was not nominated for President. The next year he was defeated by Tammany for mayor of New York by a bare 3,000 votes. It was said that the count was crooked. In 1906 Mr. Hearst ran against Charles E. Hughes for Governor of New York and lost. In 1909 he was again defeated for mayor...
...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...
...when Joseph Frederick Rutherford took charge, they denominate themselves Bible Students. Their membership they claim is in the millions; they have tens of thousands of local associations, called "ecclesias" and ruled by "elders" and "deacons"; publications are in 37 languages. They have no paid ministers. Workers receive bare expenses. Excess money gathered from believers go to further their spread of "Pastor" Russell's, now Judge Rutherford's, ideas.* Those ideas are that the Bible, the Prophets and Revelations especially, forecast and prefix all earthly doings. By judicious use of Biblical excerpts Bible Students have "established" that three periods...
...reach the cold ones, Mr. Buchman invented an evangelizing process that still is little understood. He uses the intimate interview, the personal exhortation. And he has been effective. His adepts stop at nothing in telling their experiences. It becomes a goal for them to reveal their sins, to bare their private pollutions...
...father's up to his death in Europe as an oil-smeared refugee from U. S. justice. The properties are conscientiously collected and arranged in about onethird of the book but Author Sinclair evidently got weary of the creative task he had set himself and fell back on bare-faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell...