Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the case of my essay, the transformation was both startling and thorough. Although I devoted, as requested, special pains and over 3,000 words to the gowning of my theme, when it actually appeared it was only half clothed--and radically differently, at that. Most of the scholarly detail...
Then there were pages devoted to the effects, positive and negative, of: wearing high-heeled shoes; developing the body by "exercises"; using cosmetics and 'hair dyes; taking anesthetics; removing surplus hair; removing the appendix; smoking; dieting to cure diabetes; undergoing the Steinach operation for rejuvenation, etc.
Then began the Schwab-Gary tussle. The Judge wanted to operate the whole organization through an oligarchy, an executive committee. President Schwab wanted sole control. He objected to hearing an influential director ordering him to build a steel plant at Chicago, when he, the direct operator, needed a plant at...
The Observer comes first. The power and habit of seeing in minute detail were upon him from childhood. Once, with a rare beetle in each hand and a third in sight, he transferred one wriggling creature to his teeth, with distressing results. He studied facial expressions of people in trains...
Ring Lardner once wrote a book and called it, intelligently enough, "What Of It?" The same title might aptly be applied to the above journalistic summary of any man's weakness and woman's integrity. As merely frivolous fancies of average minds such analysis of social problems are, if not...