Word: distinguishedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...works printed in London in 1760, presented by the publishers to Thomas Hollis of Lincoln's Inn, who gave it to the College Library a few days later. In it he inscribed "Felicity is freedom, and freedom is magnanimity. Thucyd," Thomas Hollis was called "of Lincoln's Inn" to distinguish from the two other Thomas Hollises, all of whom were members of a family that was one of the greatest of Harvard's early benefactors...
...father was English and I cherish the hope that the country of my birth may yet achieve the poise and dignity which mark and distinguish the land of my inheritance...
...author and her heroine, between whom it is hard to distinguish, have one rare thing in abundance. They have race. They react sharply and lastingly to experiences like Sara Spain's (the heroine's) rescue from the surf by Siercy Hodd, her sweetheart and lover in lazy, lovely Georgia. They abominate the starched prosiness of the northern Haskell clan into which Sara marries, but they are game. After screaming, "Hop-toads!" at elder Haskells, they apologize...
...impossible to distinguish the actors except as they fall into two groups, those who mumble their lines so that they become blessedly inaudible, and those who remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment...