Word: dissimilarity
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...Like her small sister in She Wanted a Millionaire, Constance Bennett in this picture is an American girl who has adventures in France. She, too, is seen wearing fine feathers and patronizing Parisian cafes while trying to straighten out her romantic uncertainties, but in other respects the pictures are dissimilar. Constance, far from being the finalist in a beauty contest, is a girl of high degree who has found that the men she admires are unsusceptible to her charms. To make herself more desirable, she sets out to acquire a past, aided by a flip gigolo (Ben Lyon...
...Authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a country mouse, Mark Van Doren a town mouse. Their view of country people is dissimilar: Poet Warner's satirical, Poet Van Doren's nostalgic. Sylvia Townsend Warner lives alone in her house in England with a big black dog, believes in witches although she has never seen the devil in person. Other books: Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot, The Espalier. Mark Van Doren, lean and serious onetime literary editor of the lean and radical Nation, has also written Spring Thunder, 7 P.M. and Other Poems...
...experience was just the opposite. On July 5, 1929 I arrived on a liner from France with some trepidation and three full-sized and ten small-sized bottles of liquor. My method of attack was the same as that of Mrs. Robbins, but the outcome was entirely dissimilar. After regaining his breath after my declaration (oral, by the way) of the 13 bottles contained in my luggage, the customs official merely said: "Tell me which suitcase they are in so that I can miss them." I still have the bottles (empty now) to back up my story...
...professorial chair. The dismissal of the president of the University of Michigan is notorious, and as unfortunate, even if unavoidable, as it is notorious. Investigations, too, made by the Governor and his associates of Missouri of the conduct of the president of its university bear memories of not dissimilar investigations made of the conduct of his professorial associates. These and other unique instances prove the importance of a more general understanding and of a deeper appreciation on the part of all university officers of the conditions which belong to their great officers...
...that liquor experiment in his State, described the "whiskey rebellion" at Darlington, the bootlegging, graft and corruption which finally led to the law's repeal as a failure and South Carolina's movement toward State Prohibition. Under questioning, he admitted that local conditions then were "not dissimilar" to national conditions now. His remedy: "I would get a group of men on the Wet side to sit down with a group of men on the Dry side to meet this situation in a constructive moving way. . . . To date the law has not had a fair chance. We need...