Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a study the best material is found in the accounts of institutions and the households of the nobles. The Archives of the great monastic houses, of the five great military orders, and of many ducal houses are known to be substantially complete. The exact nature of these resources is not well known. We know much about the archives of the Indies at Seville and about the archives of the Marta at Madrid. But without further examination, it would not be possible to plan the details of the price series to be embodied in the general index number...
...exists considerable murkiness about this operation in the public mind. Almost every one thinks that the fresh testes of a living goat or monkey are hung onto the male genitals in place of worn-out glands. This ignorance results from a bashful obscurantism which keeps the public from acquiring exact facts about the procreative processes. They do not know that the Steinach method is altogether different...
...with antiseptic. The room was hot. Dr. Dandy and his assistants, all in white, hair tied down out of sight and movement, masks over their mouths and noses, moved about. Their every action was smooth, definite, quiet. Instruments-scalpels, hemostats, forceps, needles, saws, chisels, mallet-bandages, medicaments lay in exact, orderly place. There was a contrivance, which the surgeon used later, for pumping air by a special process into the skull cavity to keep the exposed brain from "dying...
...easy to portray. Nor are vicars on the longest of vicars' vacations. But Mr. Cannon realizes the Barriesque quality in the play with delightful results. William Duke, who wants a "keen" world, who likes his vicarship with lambent sincerity, who knows enough of life to misunderstand death--he is exact and competent, more so than can usually be expected in stock productions with red asbestos curtains and singleton orchestras. Miss Newcombe as the formidable Mrs. Clivedon-Banks; Miss Ediss as Mrs. Midget, romanticist atheist--they do not quite approach reality. The one is too boisterously appreciative of the buffoonery...
...First Sea Lord Churchill used to drive gouty Admirals to distraction, by asking them suddenly, now and then: "What would you do if war were declared tomorrow?" He used to gaze nervously each morning at a chart on which the exact position of every major ship of every navy in the world was shown. And he used to make extremely hot-headed speeches advocating his "Home Rule" Irish policy...