Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buffer State is proverbially hard. The Secretary to the President is a buffer State between his master and a horde of graspers who swoop down on the White House with endless demands. The Secretary needs diplomacy and a study of defense...
These assuredly are wonders. A greater wonder still is the resource and enterprise of Rabinoff, who has adventured widely in the fields of music, with the first American appearance of Pavlowa, with the Boston Opera Company, with the Ukrainian Chorus. Another most authentic wonder is the endless philanthropy of philanthropists, who always crop up for the endowment of high and worthy projects...
That Austria, which has passed the last few years in probing the depths of disaster and despair, should work so bravely and well to keep up its musical culture has provoked endless wonderment. The Austrian may be short of all the necessaries, with starvation and revolution looming before him, but still, admitting no neglect, he goes to concert and to Mass...
...Endless testimony, intricate detail, points of law, and points of fact, characterized the progress of the Government's suit to recover 4,800 German chemical patents, seized and sold to the Chemical Foundation of Wilmington. Over two weeks have been spent by the Government in striving to prove that the transaction was " fraudulent "; because the price was "altogether inadequate" ($250,000), because President Wilson was " not properly informed" in sanctioning the sale, and because Francis P. Garvan, then Alien Property Custodian, sold patents to the Foundation of which he became President...
...cauliflower ear. It is attached to the head of Johnny Dundee. A cauliflower ear is the ridged, mushroom-like appendage that remains after years of unfriendly massage by the fists of opposing pugilists. Its modern disappearance is largely due to the adoption of football headguards by fighters during the endless sparring bouts of the training period...