Word: merely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dwell locked in a wing of his castle, preparing incessantly gifts and toys for the two non-existent children whom he believes are his by Sari Fedak? Such things happen in Hungary, where certain ancient family strains have achieved notable degeneration. Perhaps it was by mere chance that Count Emerich Dagenfeldt went mad soon after Sari Fedak became mistress and then (after some six years) wife to Ferenc Molnar. Another question: The Court: "Did you really call the plaintiff 'that low down little Budapest cat'?" Sari Fedak: "I hardly know her well enough to call her that...
Said he: "America has been extraordinarily kind to me. But I cannot wholly admire your civilization. There is too much noise and speed, too much emphasis on mere material prosperity, too much desire to show off and attract attention, and too much selling...
...Radicals. On this man who has expressed his "thorough belief" in capital punishment as "the only thing to check wanton crimes of violence" rests such hope of pardon as two men may have who are condemned to be electrocuted for murder. Believing that trial judges should be "no mere moderators or referees," but should "guide and control" inquiries, he is now asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, can by the exercise...
Stimulated to historical introspection by the curiosity of nations that are, comparatively, mere children, Egypt is jealously digging herself up these days, under European leadership. Last week, led by Digger Cecil Firth, archaeologists of the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian government climbed up a stairway of 100 steps out of the rocky bowels of their land...
...material prosperity and outward greatness which the America of today presents, can be directly attributed to the single mindedness with which we as a nation have embraced industrial success as the standard of achievement. But the hollowness of a philosophy of life, which leads to nothing more substantial than mere progress, is already being felt with a poignancy, which even the Nirvana of Coolidgism has failed to allay. And in tracing the fading of the golden day into the gilded dusk, Lewis Mumford is voicing a discontent with the present idols, to which the pens of such widely different types...