Word: enrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caustic in conviction;" Sarah Bem-hardt, on losing her leg: "Patience, my dear Marbury, I will soon hop in to you;" Mrs. Patrick Campbell and her diminutive canine, Nanky-Poo; "inimitable George M. Cohan," who wanted his name in the book; David Belasco, "who has done more to enrich and to advance the dramatic art of. this country than has any other single producer;" Gertrude Atherton "planted the state of California on our mental map;" Richard Harding Davis "liked to think himself the Rough Rider of literature;" "Cissle Loftus?"a nice girl and needed the money;" Irene and Vernon Castle...
...continued upwards during the week, with a heavy volume of trading, although there were no signs from the industrial world of marked improvement for the immediate future. The oil situation looked better-with normalcy quite a way in the distance. The cotton shortage will probably curtail buying rather than enrich planter or spinner through high prices. The retail trade is too good to last, and is unusually dependent on the maintenance of very high industrial wages. The foreign situation grew more confused, accompanied by a sharp drop in sterling exchange. Only the building boom can be considered, from present prospects...
According to Dr. Donald there is "more uniformity in procrastination in America than in England." And since "French words are anglicized much sooner" here, American adaptations constantly enrich it. To regulate and unify the use and pronunciation of English. Dr. Donald proposes the establishment of an Institute of English like the Academie Francalse. Although the details are still misty, the plan includes roughly dual headquarters at London and Washington of an inner cabinet of experts and an outer parliament; of professors and authors...
...votes are said to be almost insuperable. They are even too frightened to register themselves on the electoral rolls, believing that such a process is a trap set to catch them as conscripts for the army. It is also stated that they believe that their independence is designed "to enrich the autocracy and the bureaucracy at the expense of the toiling masses...
...space between two semi-circles side by side. A popular novelist unearthed "carapace" to give us one more synonym for "shell". Kipling, Conrad, and Meredith knew the value of the "mot juste" and have forced their readers to learn the value of the dictionary. When one starts out to enrich the vocabulary in this way the possibilities are limitless. See how a little diligence can improve the usual novel opening. "It was something akin to ataraxy that our heroine, aestivating amongst the alsike, observed that her apolaustie hero had come from abroad aristate". And these are only...