Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magazines and moving pictures. Yet they are, in his phrase, "male and ugly," with negligible plots, formed of cruelty and violence. His reason, however, as to why the comic strip is read so widely by the very people who are so savagely satirized in it does not appear to lie in a "tough-minded population not among the intellectuals, but among the very draymen, shop clerks, and bond salesmen who are the raw material." Like the readers of "Babbitt," the members of this tough-minded population never remotely imagine that they may be exactly like the people at whom they...
...Lord Mayor met their Majesties, surrendered to the King the keys of the City and the emblematic pearl sword of privileges. The royal party drove on to Leadenhall Street, where the King alighted from his carriage, smote a stone with a mallet, tested the stone's lie with a spirit-level, declared it "well and truly laid." The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone of a new building to be occupied by Lloyd's,* the world-famed insurance company and underwriters. Before laying the stone, the King said in the course of a speech: "I have...
...most important speech uttered was a fiery one from Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. In a bitter tirade against the Entente Powers, lie attacked them for the non-evacuation of Cologne, for alleging that Germany had been secretly arming without; and, in the course of five months, not being able to draft a note containing specific charges "in such a form that they could deliver it." He affirmed emphatically that Germany was disarmed, calling all reports to the contrary "ridiculous inventions...
...exhibits, admired the ultimate mode in funeral shoes, the suavest cuts in cemetery suitings, the 1926 coffins. They strolled off to dinner, exchanging views on the smoothing of an eyelid, the powdering of a nose, the arrangement of hands and what is the finest angle for a head to lie...
Steel boats-900 bottoms in varying sizes-lie listless in U.S. estuaries. It cost about one billion dollars to make them and it costs the U. S. about $2,700,000 to keep them from one Christmas to the next...