Word: cavilling
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...been said, variety is the salt and pepper which goes with the eggs of our every day existence, relaxation is the sugar in our coffee. The metaphor smacks, it is true of the restaurant, but the Vagabond must ask forgiveness for this if any cavil at its use for he intends today to relax; to feed on the sweet and unsubstantial food of idleness--to go to a baseball game...
...choice between incompetence and the loss of support of the Anti-Saloon League. He chose incompetence. Possible votes twenty months from now, then, are of more importance than present and effective administration of government. And no one seems to care a great deal perhaps because no one will cavil at ineffective dry administration...
...more buildings of this character. However, we are lending money for small apartments or flat houses and one and two-family houses." When he had first said this, President Simon William Straus of S. W. Straus & Co. had not agreed with him entirely. Mr. Straus' house, beyond cavil, underwrites more mortgage bonds than any other concern in the country. His estimate of the nation's building situation is considered, by most men, to be authoritative, and, last week he stated: "Current conditions lead me to the conclusion that there should be a temporary breathing spell in construction...
...thought too Arcadian since the villagers oscillate between the modern vernacular and a strong resemblance to Hans the blacksmith, ; Schwartz the butcher and other such traditional creatures. But out of his acquaintance with real monks Mr. Shuster has wrought an atmosphere of which the charm is quite beyond cavil, even the well-nigh inescabable air of proselyting being warded off by quiet irony and bathos. Brother Alphonse and Brother Guido quarrel in the garden; a dream reconciles them. They argue of a prehistoric monster; the Father Superior sends them to the circus, which they miss through absentmindedness, forgetting their monster...
...work, beyond cavil, was more original than Architect McKim's. The latter, a conservative gentleman of the highest type, was in his decoration a trifle too simple, austere, for many people's taste; his design too was severely academical. But everyone agreed that Charles McKim was exactly the man the firm needed to balance the exciting gifts of Stanford White. No one, even with an unlimited fund to draw on, could decorate a house like Stanford White. There was a certain discreet voluptuousness in his patterning of rugs and hangings of sombre and yet burning tones...