Word: contrivedness
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There was in the conservatory in the Lombard city a man of middle life and of some wealth, a tenor. He had been studying for years with that grand heroism that you find in aspirants who have never contrived to sing a decent note. No manager, even of the smallest...
King George at Buckingham Palace. Now he returns to the U. S. to test his native country. Roland Hayes began his life with the hard labor of the small farm-holding Negroes of the South. His parents owned a small piece of cotton land. The boy and his brother ploughed...
POLLY PREFERRED?A cunningly contrived trifle on movie stars in the making. Genevieve Tobin is exhibit A.
After Smith's death, Young claimed the succession to his office. He contrived to have the Council of Twelve, of which he was head, made the supreme authority in the Church, and had his most potent rival, Rigdon, tried for threatening treason and " cut off from the Church." It was...
When the angry crowd outside saw themselves thus shut out, they broke into a riot, with wild yells of " Down with the management!'' The noise sounded in the auditorium, but Toscannini, growing furious, relentlessly continued the performance. Several score of workmen who had contrived to get into the gallery, heard...