Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole; that George Denver Guggenheim, 22, son of onetime U. S. Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, copper tycoon, was in town for pleasure, not to stimulate Montana's somnolent copper industry. The newshungry also learned by bulletin what they could about the results of the Olympic Games, the gist of President Hoover's acceptance speech, the trial of Mayor Walker...
...Gist of the Ford philosophy: A man has no divine right to a job but must work to find work; charity undermines character; self-help is the only road to economic salvation. Excerpts from his "contributions...
...most exclusive, Miss Chapin's and Brearley, have expanded into large plants uptown on the far East Side. Oldest (40 years) and most aristocratic Miss Spence's School has been endowed, incorporated, dropped the Miss. It too has acquired a big new uptown plant at gist Street near Fifth Avenue. Founder Clara B. Spence has been dead nine years. Her successors, Miss Charlotte S. Baker (1923-29) and Miss Helen Clarkson Miller (1929-32) resigned before attaining comparable fame as great educators of New York's best daughters. Last week the Spence trustees announced their next move...
...effect that if the militarists want realism, we will give it to them. Here is war not seen through the lenses of anybody's prejudice but caught in the act by the camera. . . . Back of the camouflage of uniform and music, oratory and popular cheering, this is the gist and essence of war at the point where it specifically operates. . . . Let this book, then, do its quiet work. Let it say . . . that war is a mad and barbarous business...
...author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion...