Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place in it now for holy hymns. My promise to vote for Smith should reassure you that I am not fanatical about the separation of church and state. My protest is simply against what seems to me a particularly crass bit of blasphemy from men who should know better. "Christian Soldiers" indeed! Faugh...
...November, 1926, Mr. Pierce declared that Alfred Emanuel Smith had "a better chance of becoming President of the United States than any other man has had for many years...
...Shame! Shame on Uncle José!" teased the tots. Slowly the marksman grew livid, lowered his rifle until it pointed to the nearest of his teasers, squeezed trigger, put bullet into brain. As the other children scattered, screaming, poor José knew no better than to chase and shoot them down one by one. With his last shot he wounded a peasant who had rushed up brandishing an axe. As the man, for whom he had often worked for nothing, fell, Poor José seized his axe and split his head in twain...
...Globe Theatre in Manhattan, The Family Picnic is included in the same program with Mr. Shaw's talkie and Dolores Del Rio's The Red Dance (see THE NEW PICTURES). Few better programs are to be found anywhere...
...foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English and are such easy prey for the low buffoonery of their companions ... it is one of the laws of human drama that this should be so. ... The crowd likes nothing better than to see a half-wit get the better of a pompous intellectual. It restores confidence as it were." When he is in a tight fix, Mr. Interlocutor blandly and sonorously announces a rendition by our silver-voiced tenor, or an original specialty by our own little Mr. Tambo...