Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah with his characteristic "set the world on fire" spirit has undertaken more than he can finish. His great campaign to redeem the fair name of the Republican Party has netted a mere twentieth of the sum necessary to repay Mr. Sinclair for his donation to the "Keep Cool with Coolidge" camgaign...
According to the report, eight hours and twenty minutes a day are enough for sleep and three hours and forty minutes for recreation. A mere ten minutes suffices for religion, but the student redeems himself with a record of nearly six hours used in study every day in the week, a total very little under the 44 hour week of the average business man. The extra time left in his day are taken up in miscellaneous activities such as eating and travelling...
Marriage. Both commentators thoroughly explode the myth that women have ever been "nationalized" in Soviet Russia. Both note the extreme simplicity with which marriage and divorce are accomplished by mere registration of intent before the authorities. Quotes Mr. Lee from the Soviet Government Code: "Children of unmarried parents enjoy the same rights as the children of legally married persons...
...relish such examples of bawling calf oratory as (I quote impressionistically) : "that lovable, that noble, that fooo-oully maligned man, Warren G. Harding"; "the gloooorious wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much, too much, etc. If, as Pastor Rudy praises, the Senator showed "unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy," may I timidly wonder what unfortunate accident transmuted those "remarkable" brains into a mess of something that (if it were lady-like to call names) I should follow the menu cards to describe as Calves Brains, Scrambled...
...walls of our houses or apartments, may add much to the pleasure of our life. The painter therefor treats his subjects as so much material or motive to be made into a pleasant arrangement, a pretty commentary on the beauty of things. Shadows, for example, are no longer a mere means for the expression of the likeness of form or even of light effects, but are motives for design in paint. The emphasis is placed on harmony of brush stroke, on play of color over the surface, on decoration. Who can say that when this is done well...