Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young writers whose several courses are the consideration of "Destinations" present such divergence of purpose that they discover no very clearly marked thoroughfare for American letters. But under the ruling hierarchy of Dreiser, Mencken, Robinson, and Anderson, Mr. Munson finds an approaching aridity that fresh blood must eventually dispel. And so, in the present volume, with a respectful acknowledgement of the critical importance of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, and an estimation of Dreiser, Robinson, and Lindsay, he attempts, in a series of essays on Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Williams, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, and Jean Toomer...
Again, Senator Fess has ever been a Coolidge man, a "Coolidge-anyway" man. Only once has he endeavored to dispel the impression that he is the Coolidge spokesman in the Senate, and he later confessed that that one endeavor was only a political charade. The object of the "Coolidge-anyway" movement has been to block Candidate Hoover with uninstructed delegates and its aim, according to pessimists, is another "hotel room" nomination. The choice of Keynoter Fess seemed like a peep through the hotel room keyhole...
Paradoxically light was being thrown upon Sir Henri himself, last week, from Manhattan. There President Richard Airey of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., a Royal Dutch subsidiary, declared: "I wish to dispel a popular illusion that Sir Henri Deterding has changed his nationality from Dutch to British. . . . Living principally in England, as he does, he prefers to be known by his British title . . . but he has never changed his nationality...
...Meanwhile the "Trader" cackled harmless and sometimes intriguing remarks. Example: "The first elephant ever I shot had ivories that weighed 140 pounds. And if you think I wasn't the most tickled youngster on earth, why, dispel the rumor...
Perceiving this, Chicago Democrats have taken hope. Last week they announced a plan to dispel the Republican shadow from south Chicago. They were reported to have obtained the most famed citizen of Negro Chicago to work for Governor Al Smith and the Democracy...