Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming to a head. The first is that the tastes of the public are obviously becoming lower. The second is that the management of plays is no longer in the hands of a few well established men, but in the hands of many persons some of whom have been mere ticket takers, have accumulated a few thousand dollars, and with their deplorable taste have entered the managing game. Another factor lies in ticket speeulation which, if not curbed, will be the death of the theatre. And a final reason lies in the difficulty of making one's way through...
...King's is (and this is no mere courtierlike utterance) the most delightful individualism of all. His garments are carefully cut to suit his bodily form, yet with due regard for the mode. But his personality peeps forth in little touches. which doubtless please him and certainly make him distinct...
...Three months passed. The elder daughter, Maria de las Mercedes, 5, was then a Queen-Babe under her mother's regency. Suddenly the royal physicians proclaimed, amid prodigious Spanish rejoicings, that the Queen Mother was certainly with child. Thereafter excitement was intense and betting unrestrained. Would it be a mere girl, or was there actually stirring in the royal widow a KING...
...adding only to 999,999,999 would fail in its task. For when, last week, Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. merged with Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., ten digits were required to express the resources affected by the merger. True, each of the companies will put into the combine a mere $122,000,000, giving the new company a capital of only about a quarter-billion. But Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., directed by Ralph Jonas, is connected with Manufacturers Trust Co., presided over by Nathan Jonas; and Manufacturers Trust, through a recent merger (TIME, Dec. 31), is Manhattan...
...said that American films have reached technical perfection. "They are changing," he stated, "from mere sources of amusement to sources of education...