Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheldon, who died on October 16 of this year, devoted the greater part of his mature life to investigation of the sources of our English vocabulary, having change of that department in successive revision of Webster's Dictionary, now called the International. Into such study he carried that unusual blend of divination, balance, and minute discrimination which characterized both his linguistic research and his literary judgments. None was more original than he, none more rigidly selfenitical. Hence the enduring character of his achievement...
...distinguish one from another, and the differences among their respective works are equally invisible. Yet somehow the great public discriminates, and the reception Mother got in 1911 marked Mrs. Norris as one of our elect. To her ability as a straightforward, reportorial storyteller, she seems to add a blend of sentiment that is highly popular. This story is about a large Irish-Catholic family in San Francisco-the mother praying and dreaming about her "little angels," the boys getting jobs, the girls getting married, the father trying to govern his family without assistance from the convent nuns...
...Lucky Break. An insignificant comedy which should have been set to music, brought back to the stage George MacFarlane. He used to blend his baritone into the silken doings of light opera. In memory of this they gave him three songs to sing in addition to his acting. The latter was without distinction, fitting poorly into the whole scheme. He was a millionaire who suddenly lost his money and found the world immensely kind to millionaires without a cent...
...yards, row on row of frame houses slouch over the street like ragged standees at a free-lunch counter. In the daytime, almost no one can be seen along that street, but at night the doors of the rickety houses open and the occupants come forth. Their black faces blend adeptly with the night; their bodies are blurred shadows in doorways, or lazy silhouettes revealed where street-corner bars and laundries drip golden honey into the darkness. They seem not to have a wish in the world, these limber shadows, except to idle, waiting for a hypothetical friend to treat...
...thought", "intellectual awakening", "the advantage of spending four years in a thoroughly democratic society", "the knowledge that the qualities of honesty, courage, chivalry, courtesy, and sportsmanship are the standards essential to self-respect and the respect of the other members of the community in which one lives," "the whole blend of intellectual and social influence...