Word: distorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bergery," said the Prime Minister softly, with a slow, maddening smile, "I recognize the M. Bergery whom I knew on the Reparations Commission-always ready to distort the truth...
...Peck's committee analyzed the employment records of 187,390 U. S. manufacturing plants, employing 8,383,261 wage earners. Building, mining and transportation industries were ignored. Their millions of workers are almost entirely unionized, and their inclusion in the National Association of Manufacturers' statistics would distort the open shop picture. _ Nonetheless, Mr. Peck's findings were significant. In the industries investigated only 13.7% of the plants employed only union help, and these people comprised only 7.4% of those employed in all the especially picked factories. Non-union factories numbered 11.%, their employes 11.3% There remained...
...Pittsburgh. Presidents J. D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Horace W. Baker of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. called, to request that the Senators would make their tour without any escort from the United Mine Workers whose officials, insisted the operators, would be sure to distort conditions. Philip Murray, the Mine Workers' vice president, was more persuasive, however, and a union delegation accompanied the tourists, on the understanding that Mr. Murray was to be kept away from the operators' superintendents at the mines...
...docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter his stateroom. Flood novel technique not only permits but requires an immense quantity of flotsam and jetsam. The writer may, and must, sub merge himself and watch, like a submarine artist, for a phantasma goria of mental and emotional proceedings in his characters, distort ed by their depth into shapes of beauty or ugliness, magnified or diminished with varying degrees of intelligibility. Thus, through William Demarest's mind there float childhood memories, fragments of verse, scraps of conversation, encounters real and imaginary, idle and erotic, gay and sad; strings of words, chains...
...Lampoon is sadly in need of some draughtsmen on its editorial staff. A sound knowledge of drawing and particularly of anatomy is essential to the successful humorous artist or caricaturist. To distort the human figure it is first necessary to know how to draw it normally. Look at the work of Frank Reynolds or Ernest Shepard of "Funch" and also cast a lingering glance upon the efforts of Fournier and Brunner in "La Vie Parisienne...