Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain's official laureate is a retiring gentleman who will be 82 next month, Poet Robert Bridges,† with four university degrees after his name and not the, faintest inclination to exhort and extol his own nation overmuch, or to vilify others. Where Poet Kipling has filled the language with catch-phrases and quotations,** Poet Bridges, once a physician, has spent his years spinning out theories of prosody, steeping himself in the mellifluity of the ancients, writing critiques of John Milton and John Keats. He published a volume†† of new verses only a few weeks...
...this talk about how vulgar you Americans are," is "silly." She thinks Americans are "perfectly adorable," especially U.S. college girls, even if they do smoke more than Australians and use "ever so much more" makeup. Nevertheless, she was obliged to say no, certainly not; she had not the faintest idea of entering the Atlantic City "struggle" (as the reporters called it) or any other...
...opening shot in the form of a "Prologue" proves a nasty sock at the reader with even the faintest metrical sensibilities. This tasty bit of verse contains no less than five various meters comprising trimeter, tetrameter and rentameter with iambs, and dactyls thrown in for good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this...
...written and its pose of sophistication, knowingness and slight derisiveness which is now the fashion. To me, whose business it is to know what is taking place in the world, TIME has nothing what ever to offer, except the comments of its staff and they have not the faintest interest. I have seen the magazine now and then and have frequently found it inaccurate and occasionally badly biased, besides being silly in hopes of achieving the light touch...
...cannot begin to tell you, my friends, what I saw and heard in those places, all of which were supposed to be 'respectable.' I can give you only the faintest idea in this address. In one dance hall, which had been formerly a great skating rink, we saw between 5,000 and 6,000 young men and women, on Saturday night, when they danced until Sunday morning. They were crowded in closely together, and were surging up and down the great dance hall floor, locked tightly in each other's embrace, in many cases with the cheek...