Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours, than Senator Caraway of Arkansas. His practice of wandering moodily all over the Senate chamber while his colleagues are sitting brings Senator Caraway close to more colleagues on both sides of the aisle than he could inspect if he sat like them at a desk. Yet none knew better than Senator Caraway the difficulty for the News of escaping libel damages if it became explicit. Therefore, and perhaps because he thought his wandering habits had been hinted at by the News-for he is a militant Prohibitionist, though no hypocrite-Senator Caraway challenged the News to publish some names...
Therefore stern, close-lipped President-Elect Irigoyen was thoroughly vexed, last week, and perhaps slightly perturbed at the effect which The Road to Buenos Ayres may have upon U. S. friendship for Argentina. None knows better than "Boss" Irigoyen how much truth is in the book; for as a youth he was a Police Captain in Buenos Aires (1873) and later Chief of Police...
...hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time he would make the show a lot better. Not but what Adelaide Hall, with her hoarse, high voice, and an energetic chorus make Blackbirds, despite dull moments, the best coon show in town...
...Cambridge, in a grey twilight, the Harvard crew, with better blade work and new weight, beat Cornell with Massachusetts Institute of Technology third...
...indeed made Author Newman's style more or less famous (The Hard-boiled Virgin). Hardly a sentence but begins with a while or a when or a since, and balances itself to lengthy conclusion. Literary critic of some merit (The Short Story's Mutations), she undoubtedly knows better, so the diagnosis is reduced to that of affectation...