Word: illustriouses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Now, if I need precedent, as I scarcely do, but for the fullness of measure, may I refer you now to a decision of your illustrious predecessor and namesake and relative, whom everybody was proud of?Theodore Roosevelt?that when he had to pass upon a stock holding of the...
"Why therefore be affrighted? Why stand frozen with fear and trembling like the slaves of old? Why not remember the inheritance which is ours and stretch forth strong arms and stout hearts and be worthy of our patrimony? We have an illustrious example of such a spirit ? the spirit...
Mr. Clutton-Brock has the slightly academic point of view of the illustrious but conservative paper for which he writes. The Baroque is to him anathema; and Boucher, but an insignificant follower of Watteau. Luckily he ends with the nineteenth century. One is frightened at what he would have done...
Strangers of the Evening (Tiffany). Murder mysteries are easy to parody because they depend upon complications which can easily be exaggerated into absurdity and because audiences, chilled by touches of the macabre, are ready to giggle with relief as well whenever the macabre bubbles over into the incredible. Strangers of...
ner of an illustrious predecessor, dangers of which I suspect Mr. Agee is quite aware, yet I for one sincerely and devoutly hope that the parenthetical "may be" of the present title will not remain too permanent a feature therein