Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open the "ugly, big, heavy, bare,forbidding red brick factory," Edward of Wales arrived by plane, was announced by a Shakespearean blare of trumpets. He unlocked the doors with a golden key. Mr. Mellon unfurled the Stars & Stripes, H. R. H. the King's flag...
...Described by a correspondent of Britain's leading Conservative paper, the London Morning Iost, as "just dreadful-an ugly, big. heavy, bare, forbidding red brick factory with the straight lines of featureless windows and a tower-like tank-utterly out of harmony with the lovely Avon reach that it does its best to monopolize" (being built on the river's brim...
...moment roused, it is in the next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever in the cold clamminess of an April evening in (or near) Boston; how anyone can succumb to the charms of Boston maidens under the bare trees of Walden Pond is beyond our comprehension; how anyone can do anything with one of those Boston maidens even if he were to succumb is still more a matter for wonder...
Wriggling their bare toes in Australia's good earth, the sturdy offspring (he has nine) of Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons romped and whooped in his garden last week heedless of the fact that their father was perhaps pushing rebellious New South Wales to the brink of insurrection...
...discarding, as far as possible, chronology and external facts seeks only to reveal the innermost character of the subject. His admiration of Saint-Beuve was shown early in his widely acclaimed works on Emerson, Lee, and Pepys; ever since that time, with amazing versatility, he has continued to lay bare the souls of obscure and misunderstood characters. Despite justified charges of superficiality, his popularity attracted imitators, but the peculiar intimacy of his style defied duplication; his creation has remained definitely his own. As the rehabilitators of "damaged souls" he has won a unique position among biographers and an unusual hold...