Word: describeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This precipitated a scramble so dreadful that it is impossible properly to describe it. Generous Mr. Farley had distributed 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers.
Press despatches to the above effect, last week, were exaggerations, but not essentially untrue. The key hyperbole was to describe as "one of the handsomest private yachts in the world" the prosaic German steamer Lutzow. Factually speaking the Lutzow had been chartered by German chemical interests allied with the famed...
Commentators guessed that Socialist Shaw would be the unhappiest of men in the state of society which he envisions. Everyone knows that he haggles and drives the sharpest of bargains whenever he sells a manuscript. He exploits his unique gifts far more avariciously than a Capitalistic Trust exploits any monopoly...
For the sake of myself and other unenlightened ones will you kindly describe the H. B. S. type?
Last fortnight, irate, a Mrs. A. E. Spangler of Washington wrote to Southern Senators and said: "Where are all our distinguished statesmen and scholars, who know their South as they do their prayers, that this Charlie Chaplin of New York's east side, friend of the bootlegger and saloonkeeper...