Word: inflexion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Bridges deported? If you tell me this, tell me, too, what has happened to our feeling for the fine word patriot, that in this country, and, so far as I know, only in this country, people are ashamed of it and so often give it the sneering inflexion ? I am touchy...
...some doubts of their new comrade. This is somewhat surprising, for though Ramsey, dear lad that he is, has led a rather contradictory career, one can be fairly safe in predicting that he has found his true spiritual home in the bosom of the Conservative Party. Here with chaste inflexion and earnest exhortation he can orate to sympathetic listeners, his phrases tumbling out in due procession, building an alluring if amorphous structure of irrelevant platitudes...