Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy a divorce from Bess for a dollar and a half; the marvelous scenes of a score...
...mail carriers a virtual subsidy as are foreign governments. In Europe the subsidies average $1 a mile flown, with little return in the form of postage. In the U. S. the mock subsidy also averages $1 a flying mile. But 5? an ounce postage reduces Government expense to a mere $3,000,000 Post Office deficit...
...Mere publicity cannot be objected to. But the publicity, whether it is in move form, orange-covered novels or newspaper headlines, makes a never-ending stream of unconscious propaganda. It is the constant propaganda which has attached the word "collegiate" with "whoopee." It has given false connotations to every term in school usage...
Judges Victor Raynard Woolley and W. H. Seward Thompson (with Judge Joseph Buffington dissenting) went on to explain that "Transportation by the seller is a mere incident in the sale and necessary to its completion...
However, if such a thing may be suggested, the blot on the escutcheon of all Harvard men is due only in part to the causes suggested in the young ladies' lament. Vassar weekends may be too strenuous, but it seems illogical that mere walking should hold any terrors for those inured to the isolation of Cambridge classrooms...