Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirteen Bob a Week. Johnson was picked for the deanery in 1931 by his friend, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald. When the "Red Dean" earned his first notoriety as a mere pink, nobody minded too much. Like a well-cast stock actor clothed in Episcopal gaiters, his shining pate tonsured by nature and surrounded by a chaplet of purest white hair, Dr. Johnson looked the very picture of pious benignity, and his mildly leftish pronouncements were not too unfashionable at the time. The dean let it be known that he had started life as a mill hand at 13 shillings a week...
...daughter's wedding, his wife's funeral, his son's birth. If a peasant objected to levies as high as 80% or 90% on his crops, the zamindar could seize his land (or his daughter) in payment. The zamindars gradually became the landholders, the peasants mere sharecroppers. "The most creditable products of zamindari," wrote the London Economist, "have been Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister, and the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, the cricketer . . . The majority have been as vicious as Thackeray's Lord Steyne, as idle as Jane Austen...
This is a plea to all delegates to the convention...If you Republicans are statesmen and not mere politicians, you must realize that Eisenhower is ideally fitted to lead the country. He is a gifted organizer and a superb mediator. With the proper politically experienced helpers behind him (not just bitter opponents to the Demo-donkeys), he could do more for the country-and the Republican Party-than a dozen didactic Tafts...
...commonplace; except for Comedienne Sheila Bond, the cast, though youthful, is colorless. One trouble is with the people-or with the fact that there are none. Only in an occasional phrase, or in a song called Tripping the Light Fantastic, does the show stoop to the level of mere fumbling human beings...
...guild is an elite little (60 members) group that looks down its nose at mere "chimes" (fewer than 23 bells) and prefers a carillon with a large number of bells because it is easier to play. The organization has nothing to do with the old English game of change-ringing,* measures a carillon's "niceness" by its weight. Mariemont's instrument is "nice": its largest bell weighs 4,760 lbs., its smallest...