Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...libel and a deep hurt to me, and to prove how mistaken you are, I'm enclosing a lovely, authentic portrait of me done in oils by Bill Scott, Minneapolis Times-Tribune artist...
Last week Chief of Denmark's Armed Forces Lieut. General Erik With celebrated his 70th birthday and (that being the Army's age limit) his retirement. He was succeeded by Major General William Wain Prior, 63, a tall, slender man with a deep-lined face and penetrating eyes, who is modest, sober, steady, a little bureaucratic, of bourgeois stock. Like his father, one of Denmark's respected class called grosserer (wholesale merchants), General Prior is an economizing man. He hates to think about the way the blockade is ruining Denmark's exports of foodstuffs. Day after...
...court which "Zeus" Hughes molded into a harddriving, efficient agency of government, Justice Butler was two invaluable things-a workhorse and a judicial craftsman. All jobs need professionals, plowmen who can drive their furrow in hard ground, and cut that furrow straight, deep and clean. Such a hard-working plowman was Pierce Butler, carrying the burden and heat of the day for his conservative colleagues, while Justice Van Devanter smiled blandly, Justice Sutherland worked sporadically, and Justice McReynolds contented himself with indignant snorts...
...rituals in U. S. life hit so hard, go so deep, are so unsparing and dramatic as the disbarring of a prominent lawyer. Disbarment is to the lawyer what being read out of meeting was to the New England villager. It is a judgment that a man who has made his name at courts of law is not fit to practice the law. Disbarment is not common: painful and shocking as is the impeachment of a judge, the disbarment of a prominent corporation lawyer is almost as exceptional...
...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...