Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stanch Presbyterian, stanch Republican. He shuns jewelry but is famed for his tremendous long-distance telephone bills. Wherever he goes he carries a set of checkers. Said the Paris Comet of him last year: "He has served both God and Mammon without ever being able to distinguish which was which...
...least, he is an expert along party lines. In appearance he tries to resemble Bryan, facially better resembles Benjamin Franklin. He is heavyset, bobbed-haired, mild-mannered. He dresses in the traditional rusty-grey frock coat, the wide-brimmed black hat of Bryan and the oldtimers, which helps distinguish him among the more babbitty modern members. In the House his voice assumes a peculiar, almost clerical (but not monotonous) drone. Then he is meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker. His own faith is the Episcopalian. He drives out of Washington for Sunday services...
Most special gasolines are designated at filling stations by manufacturers' individual colors Only color not found: yellow. Reason: yellow has always been taken as an indication of poor refining. Coloring gasoline was started during the war when dyes were added to aviation fuels to distinguish them from motor car gasolines...
...presented the arguments against the sales tax. As his State applies it, he said it "falls on the thrifty and efficient and on the shiftless equally" it is difficult to fix equitable rates on different classes of taxpayers; it falls on consumption and thereby on necessities; it does not distinguish between extractive and mobile industries (West Virginia coal mining companies particularly chafe under...
...Pastures, Pulitzer-prize-winning Negro folk-play by Marc Connelly (TIME, March 10), might not be produced in London. Reason: since God is impersonated on stage, the play is sacrilegious. Playwright Connelly's comment: "I am mildly surprised to find the Lord Chamberlain's office unable to distinguish the difference between orthodox sacrilege and a simple miracle play...