Word: gist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such a tragedy belies human nature and should hinge more heavily on the sex motif. Which objection misses the gist of a drama laid at the roots of what Saxons have immemorially called their Idealism...
...press, at 7:30, a select gathering of Congressional notables assembled at the White House about the breakfast table. There were Senators Curtis, Smoot, Wadsworth, McNary, Speaker Longworth and Representatives Madden, Tilson, Dickinson, Begg-the galaxy of Republican party managers and financial commanders in Congress- and the gist of what they had with their sausages and wheat cakes was the same as what the reporters had had without refreshments the day before...
Other of Lampy's closest protagonists refused to commit themselves on the matter. J. H. Quayle '27, who has successfully thrown the flagrope through the Ibis' stand, merely repeated the gist of President Whedon's statement in the word, "Eggs...
There you have the gist of the book. It is definitely amoral, generally convincing, superhumanly individualistic in thesis, and most readable. You may not approve of the author, but at least Mr. Cline is an artist. He will bear future watching...
...determine the type of cancer which will be favorably influenced, so that no guarantee of improvement can be offered to any individual case. Some people bear the lead injections without serious disturbance, while others show evidence of poisoning so promptly that the treatment has to be abandoned. . . . "The gist of the matter is, then, that we have a treatment which brings at least temporary relief to one person in five who takes it, but that the remedy is extremely dangerous; that the drug is difficult to prepare, impossible to keep, and therefore for the present must be handled only...