Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...master myth on which the later legends are based is being somewhat allayed by contradictory publicity. In the third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave
...Denouement. Stern moralists applauded the Parisian gendarmerie for arresting all. participants and spectators concerned. They were vexed when the examining magistrate dismissed these culprits after warning them that their conduct had been "indelicate...
...shortly distribute a bit of popular sheet music entitled "The Minstrel's Waltz by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht." At Berlin, the sensation equaled that which might be produced in Manhattan by announcing that Mr. John P. Morgan had just composed the words for a new jazz moaner's "blues." The denouement...
...denouement revealed, however, that these virtuous Senators, the militant interpreters of the Constitution, were not thinking about the Constitution at all. Some of them were thinking about the World Court, and some about the Republican administration and some about the new tax bill. Those who liked all these things, lost; and those who did not, won. The score was 41-39. Then the Senators put their well-worn, eighteenth-century, uniforms of strict constructionists and loose constructionists away, where they may be ready to hand for the next sham battle--Constitutionally speaking...
...whirled home through the underground, the purchasers of this rare pennyworth perused a little story, in the now familiar vein, which described the adventures of a boy with the kings, queens and knaves of a pack of cards. In the end all the royal cards are burnt, and this denouement seemed commonplace enough to most of the stolid Londoners. Here and there, however, there was one who remembered that...