Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, are almost always mistaken for persons. Hence when a proud man wishes to leave something of his pride, after death, above the humble dust; when a famed man wishes to allow his admirers to satisfy their appetites for adulation; when a rich man wishes to indicate the extent of his domain and the individualities of its proprietor; such a person requires a portrait painter to come into his attendance and to reproduce, upon canvas, a face, in light and shade...
...recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible down along the mountainous spine of the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, and it may be that the Piarros burial tradition is a vestige from an Oriental migration. To check for the Museum...
...seldom nowadays that distinguished lawyers are criminal lawyers. The big fees and the prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation...
...Crane [Charles R., onetime U. S. Minister to China.-Ed.] told me an amusing story that Gailey found Feng laboriously trying to improve his knowledge of English by attempting to read the life of Abraham Lincoln, and offered to help him to the extent of tutoring an hour a day at any time when Feng was free. Feng left Gailey to confer, with his adjutant as to the hour and was a bit dismayed to find the only free hour that could be found was from 5:30 to 6:30 a. in., but kept to his bargain...
...great many of both have cropped up in the last decade -prefer them undiluted with the tender passion. Though Author Rinehart knows how to write a mystery story (The Amazing Interlude, The Red Lamp), and her sons* know how to publish them, she indulges in dilution to the extent of a new volume self-labelled "a love story-with just enough mystery." Mystery connoisseurs will be disappointed. Love-storyites will find in Holly a spineless heroine, in Warrington a blundering hero in spite of his burly good looks, and in Furness Brooks (he paid dinner calls) an unbelievable relic...